{"id":942257,"date":"2026-10-22T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942257\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:16:09","slug":"maple-leafs-defenceman-jake-mccabe-in-lineup-vs-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942257\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs defenceman Jake McCabe in lineup vs. Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high stick and a black eye to match won&#8217;t keep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jake-mccabe\/41f16295-352c-4b37-ae82-330cfc1fc970\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"41f16295-352c-4b37-ae82-330cfc1fc970\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake McCabe<\/a> out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> defenceman was at morning skate as a full participant on Thursday and expected to play against the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe exited Tuesday after taking a stick to the face from Columbus Blue Jackets forward Kent Johnson just over 13 minutes into the first period. The Leafs officially\u00a0ruled him out\u00a0during the second intermission.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson received a double-minor for high-sticking after making contact with McCabe just inside the Leafs&#8217; blue line following a dump-in.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe had five goals and 20 assists in 80 games for Toronto last season. He doesn&#8217;t have a point this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high stick and a black eye to match won&#8217;t keep Jake McCabe out of the lineup. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-942257","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\/942257","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=942257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}