{"id":271428,"date":"2025-11-09T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271428\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:10:08","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-f-scott-laughton-exits-game-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271428\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs F Scott Laughton exits game with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <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> lost forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-laughton\/8476872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-laughton\/8476872\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Laughton<\/a> to an upper-body injury in their game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team announced the forward would not return after he departed in the second period.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maple Leafs forward Scott Laughton will not return to tonight\u2019s game (upper body).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1987345907768086749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the game, Maple Leafs 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> told reporters that Laughton will miss the team\u2019s next game on Sunday, which is against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, and that there is no timeline available beyond that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Berube also told reporters that he \u201cthought it was a head shot,\u201d and that he needed to \u201ctake a closer look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Laughton absorbed a massive hit from Bruins defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-zadorov\/8477507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-zadorov\/8477507\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Zadorov<\/a> while attempting to play the puck up the ice in the Leafs\u2019 defensive zone. He appeared to be shaken up and immediately skated off the ice towards the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Laughton\u2019s teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bobby-mcmann\/8482259\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/bobby-mcmann\/8482259\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby McMann<\/a> engaged Zadorov in a fight immediately after, and both players were sent off on five-minute penalties as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This was just Laughton\u2019s second appearance of the young season for the Maple Leafs, after he missed the first 13 games of the campaign recovering from a lower-body injury suffered in pre-season. The Maple Leafs acquired Laughton in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> at last year\u2019s deadline, and he has registered just six points in 34 games (including last year\u2019s playoffs) with Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to departing with the injury, Laughton had recorded one blocked shot and four hits in 6:13 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs lost forward Scott Laughton to an upper-body injury in their game against the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82,74650],"class_list":["post-271428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/271428","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=271428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}