{"id":934329,"date":"2026-10-20T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934329\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:16:08","slug":"maple-leafs-william-nylander-in-lineup-vs-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934329\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; William Nylander in lineup vs. Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>&#8216; hot-handed winger will be available for Monday night&#8217;s showdown against the San Jose Sharks (Sportsnet+, 7:30 p.m. ET \/ 10:30 p.m. PT) after previously being deemed a game-time decision due to an illness.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander missed the team&#8217;s morning skate on Monday, with head coach Jim Hiller confirming that his status would be determined closer to game time. He took part in the team&#8217;s warm-up before puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>The winger had been slated to skate on the top line alongside Auston Matthews and Jack Roslovic, but Bo Groulx skated as a placeholder for Nylander at Monday&#8217;s practice. <\/p>\n<p>Before going two games without a point heading into Monday&#8217;s clash, Nylander had been on a hot streak to start the season, tallying five goals and seven assists in the team&#8217;s first seven games. <\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs are in the midst of a three-game skid, losing to the Utah Mammoth, Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders, and have dropped to last place in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs&#8216; hot-handed winger will be available for Monday night&#8217;s showdown against the San Jose Sharks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-934329","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\/934329","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=934329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}