{"id":292015,"date":"2025-11-18T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:23:10","slug":"atlantic-injury-updates-bruins-maple-leafs-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292015\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Injury Updates: Bruins, Maple Leafs, Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Bruins have had to deal with their fair share of injuries so far this season, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the club from continuing its longstanding tradition of consistent regular-season success. Through 21 games this season, Boston sits first in the Atlantic Division with a 12-9-0 record, including a 8-2-0 record in their last 10 games. On Saturday in Montreal, though, the Bruins were dealt their most significant injury blow to date this season: Charlie McAvoy<\/a> took a Noah Dobson<\/a> one-timer to the face and had to leave the game<\/a> immediately. Today, Bruins head coach Marco Sturm provided a small update on McAvoy\u2019s status, per Conor Ryan of Boston.com<\/a>, stating that McAvoy will not travel with the team on its upcoming road trip. In addition, he also said<\/a> that veteran center Elias Lindholm<\/a> would travel with the team.<\/p>\n

It should not come as any surprise that McAvoy isn\u2019t ready to play just yet, and Sturm did add that an official update on McAvoy\u2019s health will likely be issued either today or tomorrow. In any case, adequately replacing what McAvoy brings to the Bruins will be very difficult. McAvoy averages nearly 24 minutes of ice time per game (good for the team lead) and has 14 points in 19 games. While it won\u2019t help their defense, the fact that Lindholm is nearing a return to the ice should help soften the blow of losing McAvoy. He\u2019s a reliable two-way center whose return should help alleviate some of the pressure the Bruins\u2019 center injuries have placed on veteran Pavel Zacha<\/a> and rookie Fraser Minten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other injury updates from the Atlantic Division:<\/p>\n

Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving confirmed today, per The Fourth Period\u2019s David Pagnotta<\/a>, that team captain and franchise center Auston Matthews<\/a> won\u2019t play today or on Thursday due to the injury he suffered Nov. 11 against the Boston Bruins. Matthews did begin skating again today, but still needs some time before he\u2019s ready to return to game action. The 28-year-old has scored 14 points in 17 games this season, and had 33 goals, 78 points in 67 games in 2024-25. In addition to speaking on Matthews, Treliving also said that veteran defenseman Chris Tanev<\/a>\u2019s health status will be re-evaluated in a week or two, and head coach Craig Berube confirmed<\/a> that center Nicolas Roy<\/a> will miss a few games with an injury of his own. Tanev suffered his injury Nov. 1 while Roy, who has four points in 19 games this season, played in the team\u2019s last game on Saturday.
\nBuffalo Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff announced today that defenseman Michael Kesselring<\/a> suffered an injury in the team\u2019s game Saturday against the Detroit Red Wings, and \u201can extended period of time\u201d as a result. The nature of the injury is not yet clear, but Ruff said that Kesselring\u2019s absence would be \u201con the longer side \u2013 weeks.\u201d The big 25-year-old right-shot blueliner, who was acquired this past summer from the Utah Mammoth in the J.J. Peterka trade, has played in nine games this season. In better injury news, Ruff also announced that forward Zach Benson<\/a> will return to skating in a non-contact capacity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins have had to deal with their fair share of injuries so far this season, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[13156,740,741,49,48,45341,110777,131919,5718,114531,448,8437,82,746],"class_list":{"0":"post-292015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-auston-matthews","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","14":"tag-chris-tanev","15":"tag-elias-lindholm","16":"tag-injury","17":"tag-michael-kesselring","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nicolas-roy","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292015","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=292015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}