{"id":588487,"date":"2026-04-07T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:50:08","slug":"maple-leafs-recall-luke-haymes-ekman-larsson-returns-to-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588487\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs recall Luke Haymes, Ekman-Larsson returns to practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leafs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/2041523094829871590\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/2041523094829871590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced <\/a>Tuesday that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/luke-haymes\/bf5f6a8c-3b5c-423b-9deb-1be25cadb0d4\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"bf5f6a8c-3b5c-423b-9deb-1be25cadb0d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Haymes<\/a> has been recalled from the AHL on an emergency basis. <\/p>\n<p>Haymes was in attendance at Leafs practice. <\/p>\n<p>Defenceman <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=\"nofollow noopener\">Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> was also back at practice after missing Saturday&#8217;s game against the Los Angeles Kings with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>In his first full season of professional hockey, Haymes has 17 goals and 32 points in 63 games. <\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa native signed a two-year contract with the Leafs after finishing his NCAA career with Dartmouth College. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old played 83 career games with Dartmouth, racking up 41 goals and 29 assists. The centre was named to the 2023-24 NCAA All-Ivy League First Team and the NCAA (ECAC) First All-Star Team.<\/p>\n<p>Haymes joins Jacob Quillan, Michael Pezzetta, William Villeneuve and Benoit Groulx as the recent players to get called up by the Leafs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leafs announced Tuesday that forward Luke Haymes has been recalled from the AHL on an emergency basis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-588487","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\/588487","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=588487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}