{"id":943443,"date":"2026-10-23T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943443\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:22:09","slug":"maple-leafs-recall-defencemen-cole-mcward-dakota-mermis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943443\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs recall defencemen Cole McWard, Dakota Mermis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move comes after defenceman Nick Blankenburg was placed on injured reserve after leaving Thursday&#8217;s game against the New York Rangers with an undisclosed injury. Toronto is also without Chris Tanev and Marshall Rifai, who are both week-to-week with a lower-body injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Mermis, 32, was placed on waivers after training camp after appearing in 11 games last season. In seven games with the Marlies, Mermis had an assist.<\/p>\n<p>McWard signed a two-year, $1.75 million contract with the Leafs this past off-season. The 25-year-old has three assists in five games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs return to action Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move comes after defenceman Nick Blankenburg was placed on injured reserve after leaving Thursday&#8217;s game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-943443","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\/943443","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=943443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}