{"id":902649,"date":"2026-09-23T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:22:10","slug":"maple-leafs-dakota-joshua-day-to-day-with-core-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902649\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Dakota Joshua day-to-day with core injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forward has been dealing with a nagging core injury and is considered day-to-day, general manager John Chayka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2102769047641420086?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jim Hiller said Monday that Joshua was uncertain for next week&#8217;s season opener because of an unspecified injury.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, 30, tallied 10 goals and eight assists in 55 games in his first year with the Leafs last season after joining the team in an off-season trade from the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Despite missing 27 games, Joshua led Toronto in hits with 195.<\/p>\n<p>Over his six-year career, the Dearborn, Mich., native has 50 goals and 46 assists in 296 games split between the Leafs, Canucks and St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs will get their season going on Sept. 29 when they host the Canadiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The forward has been dealing with a nagging core injury and is considered day-to-day, general manager John Chayka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-902649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}