{"id":171054,"date":"2025-09-26T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:14:12","slug":"maple-leafs-d-marshall-rifai-needs-wrist-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171054\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs D Marshall Rifai needs wrist surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marshall-rifai\/8483546\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marshall-rifai\/8483546\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Rifai<\/a> will need to undergo wrist surgery after suffering an injury during Thursday\u2019s preseason win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Berube<\/a> confirmed to the media on Friday. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leafs coach Craig Berube says defenceman Marshall Rifai will require wrist surgery after getting hurt in last night\u2019s pre-season game <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TSN_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Masters (@markhmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markhmasters\/status\/1971614262633406739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old native of Beaconsfield, Que., scored three goals and 10 assists over 63 games with the American Hockey League\u2019s Toronto Marlies in 2024-25, his third season with the franchise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rifai has two games of NHL experience, both with the Leafs during the 2023-24 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following a four-year stay with Harvard University, Rifai joined the Maple Leafs\u2019 organization in 2022-23 and is currently entering the first season of a two-year, $1.55 million deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs have three preseason games remaining before hosting the rival Habs in their season opener on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Marshall Rifai will need to undergo wrist surgery after suffering an injury during Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,87909,448,82,74650],"class_list":["post-171054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-marshall-rifai-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8483546","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}