{"id":320988,"date":"2025-12-02T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320988\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:50:11","slug":"maple-leafs-brandon-carlo-may-need-surgery-out-long-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320988\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Brandon Carlo may need surgery, out long term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo will miss an extended period of time due to an injury that will probably require surgery, head coach Craig Berube told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has been out since suffering the injury during a game on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>He has recorded two assists in 18 games for Toronto this season while averaging just over 20 minutes of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs acquired Carlo in a trade with the Boston Bruins at last year&#8217;s trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, goalie Anthony Stolarz has seen &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dalter\/status\/1995889098100273479\" rel=\"nofollow\">no real improvement<\/a>&#8221; from his own injury, Berube said.<\/p>\n<p>Stolarz has not played since Nov. 11. He struggled in 13 games prior to going down, posting an .884 save percentage and 3.51 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs return to action Tuesday in Sunrise, Fla., when they meet the Florida Panthers for the first time since their seven-game loss in Round 2 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is coming off a 7-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday and will make just one change to its lineup, subbing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/dakota-mermis\/3c3e6db2-2d53-4bd0-9a36-f70f0b5dbd61\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"3c3e6db2-2d53-4bd0-9a36-f70f0b5dbd61\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dakota Mermis<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/simon-benoit\/87101f07-336e-4c22-aa1f-85d53d016736\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"87101f07-336e-4c22-aa1f-85d53d016736\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Simon Benoit<\/a>, who missed the previous contest for personal reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlo will miss an extended period of time due to an injury that will probably require surgery, head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-320988","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\/320988","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=320988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}