{"id":907331,"date":"2026-09-24T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907331\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:46:09","slug":"maple-leafs-nick-paul-suffers-injury-in-pre-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907331\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Nick Paul suffers injury in pre-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player=\"a1019d67-fb85-43e6-87cf-4b964489a5f3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nick-paul\/a1019d67-fb85-43e6-87cf-4b964489a5f3\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Paul<\/a> exited Wednesday&#8217;s pre-season game against the Ottawa Senators with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>The ailment is not expected to be too serious, but the team will know tomorrow, head coach Jim Hiller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2102945852541018549?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> following the 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when Paul got injured, but he didn&#8217;t return to the ice after the first intermission. He played 4:42 in the opening frame and had a shot on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning on July 1 for Dennis Hildeby and a fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old forward had 15 points (seven goals and eight assists) in 51 games in 2025-26. But he surpassed 40 points in the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Paul exited Wednesday&#8217;s pre-season game against the Ottawa Senators with an undisclosed injury. The ailment is not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-907331","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\/907331","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=907331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}