{"id":936692,"date":"2026-10-17T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936692\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:04:16","slug":"maple-leafs-john-tavares-out-week-to-week-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936692\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; John Tavares out week-to-week with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tavares exited early in the third period Thursday against the Buffalo Sabres after an awkward collision with Josh Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Norris collided with Tavares&#8217; lower body unexpectedly, and the Maple Leafs forward fell to the ice in discomfort. Tavares remained on the ice in visible pain before a trainer came out to assist him to the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares has two goals and five assists through seven games on the season. He also missed a contest earlier this week due to the birth of his son.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has been mostly healthy through his Maple Leafs tenure. He&#8217;s missed just 14 games total over the past five seasons and played in all 82 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Tavares joins rugged blue-liner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/chris-tanev\/436c9312-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"436c9312-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Tanev<\/a> on the Maple Leafs&#8217; injury report as they get set to face his former team, the New York Islanders, on Rogers Saturday Night Hockey (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet apparent who will replace Tavares in the Maple Leafs lineup.<\/p>\n<p>In a dose of good news, Tanev <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2111479868726579407\" rel=\"nofollow\">returned to the ice<\/a> for a solo skate Saturday alongside  skills coach Nik Antropov.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev is also out week-to-week with an upper-body injury sustained against the Colorado Avalanche last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavares exited early in the third period Thursday against the Buffalo Sabres after an awkward collision with Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-936692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936692","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=936692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}