{"id":230811,"date":"2025-10-22T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230811\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:30:07","slug":"maple-leafs-chris-tanev-exits-vs-devils-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230811\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Chris Tanev exits vs. Devils with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenceman <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"436c9312-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/chris-tanev\/436c9312-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chris Tanev<\/a> suffered an upper-body injury and was ruled out for the remainder of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the New Jersey Devils, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1980803176937976199\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev left the ice early in the second period after an inadvertent hit to the head by Devils forward Dawson Mercer. The back of Mercer&#8217;s head appeared to collide with Tanev&#8217;s face during a net-front battle.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev stayed down on the ice for a few moments before skating off with the help of Jake McCabe and a team trainer.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old is in the midst of his second season in Toronto after signing a six-year, $27-million deal in the off-season prior to the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In 75 games last year, the rugged blue-liner notched three goals and 15 assists while blocking a whopping 189 shots \u2013 good for the sixth most in the league \u2013 while averaging nearly 20 minutes of ice time a night.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev has one assist through six contests this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenceman Chris Tanev suffered an upper-body injury and was ruled out for the remainder of Tuesday&#8217;s game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-230811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230811","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=230811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}