{"id":904400,"date":"2026-09-21T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:34:09","slug":"maple-leafs-dakota-joshua-skates-with-marlies-group-uncertain-for-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904400\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Dakota Joshua skates with Marlies group, uncertain for opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/dakota-joshua\/c7011ea7-be7d-4d96-8a1e-b789263f4901\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c7011ea7-be7d-4d96-8a1e-b789263f4901\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dakota Joshua<\/a>&#8216;s status is uncertain for the Maple Leafs&#8217; opener against the Montreal Canadiens after suffering an unspecified injury, head coach Jim Hiller told reporters Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Joshua skated with the Toronto Marlies group at Monday&#8217;s practice. He did not play in the Leafs&#8217; split-squad games against the Canadiens on Saturday, and Hiller told reporters then that he&#8217;s &#8220;dealing with something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, 30, tallied 10 goals and eight assists in 55 games in his first year with the Leafs last season after joining the team in an off-season trade from the Vancouver Canucks. <\/p>\n<p>Despite missing 27 games, Joshua led Toronto in hits with 195.<\/p>\n<p>Over his six-year career, the Dearborn, Mich., native has 50 goals and 46 assists in 296 games split between the Leafs, Canucks, and St. Louis Blues. <\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs will get their season going on Sept. 29 when they host the Canadiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Dakota Joshua&#8216;s status is uncertain for the Maple Leafs&#8217; opener against the Montreal Canadiens after suffering an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-904400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904400","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=904400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}