{"id":316120,"date":"2025-11-30T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:11:09","slug":"maple-leafs-oliver-ekman-larsson-exits-early-vs-penguins-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316120\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Oliver Ekman-Larsson exits early vs. Penguins with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> played the majority of the final period against the Pittsburgh Penguins without one of their key defenceman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/oliver-ekman-larsson\/4289ec26-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4289ec26-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> exited Saturday night&#8217;s contest in the final frame and did not return. Head coach Craig Berube told reporters after the game confirmed that he suffered an upper-body injury. <\/p>\n<p>Berube added that Ekman-Larsson told Maple Leafs winger William Nylander that he would be OK, and the coach is hopeful it&#8217;s not serious. <\/p>\n<p>Ekman-Larsson finished the game with a goal and an assist in 13:56 of ice time. <\/p>\n<p>In 24 games this season, the 34-year-old Swede has three goals and 18 assists while averaging 21:03 on ice. <\/p>\n<p>Ekman-Larsson is in the second year of a four-year, $14 million contract. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs played the majority of the final period against the Pittsburgh Penguins without one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-316120","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\/316120","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=316120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}