{"id":937644,"date":"2026-10-23T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937644\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:16:09","slug":"maple-leafs-defenceman-marshall-rifai-out-week-to-week-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937644\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs defenceman Marshall Rifai out week-to-week with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/marshall-rifai\/b5dc5f7a-a3f0-4f09-a50b-fb1f1d4fced8\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b5dc5f7a-a3f0-4f09-a50b-fb1f1d4fced8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marshall Rifai<\/a> is heading to the injured list with a lower-body injury, the Maple Leafs announced after their win over the New York Rangers on Thursday. He is considered week-to-week.<\/p>\n<p>Rifai did not play in the Rangers game but did play on Tuesday against the Columbus Blue Jackets, when he scored his first NHL goal.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old has appeared in two games this season and five total in his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto blueline was also dealt another injury blow on Thursday, as defenceman Nick Blankenburg exited in a 5-4 win over the New York Rangers and wasn&#8217;t able to finish the game. <\/p>\n<p>There was no update on his status after the game. <\/p>\n<p>Blankenburg, 28, has one goal in six games with Toronto this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs return to the ice Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday Night Hockey (7 p.m. ET\/ 5 p.m. MT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marshall Rifai is heading to the injured list with a lower-body injury, the Maple Leafs announced after their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-937644","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\/937644","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=937644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}