{"id":952317,"date":"2026-10-30T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952317\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:40:09","slug":"maple-leafs-chris-tanev-says-hes-ready-to-return-against-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952317\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Chris Tanev says he&#8217;s ready to return against Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> defenceman said Friday he&#8217;s ready to return Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All signs are pointing that way for sure,&#8221; Tanev said after practice. &#8220;Feel good, sorta did the treatment that was recommended to me and [I&#8217;m] ready to rumble tomorrow, hopefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tanev, 36, was injured in a victory over the Colorado Avalanche earlier this month. He had one assist in six games before being forced out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>A Tanev return would be beneficial to a Maple Leafs blue line struggling with injuries. Nick Blankenburg and Marshall Rifai, who were filling in for Tanev, were both recently placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev has struggled to stay healthy over the past two seasons. He appeared in just 11 games last season due to multiple injuries and underwent season-ending core muscle surgery in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman said Friday he&#8217;s ready to return Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-952317","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\/952317","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=952317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}