{"id":250684,"date":"2026-04-03T22:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:20","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-d-oliver-ekman-larsson-ruled-out-of-game-against-sharks-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250684\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs D Oliver Ekman-Larsson ruled out of game against Sharks with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/oliver-ekman-larsson\/8475171\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/oliver-ekman-larsson\/8475171\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> suffered a lower-body injury in their 4-1 loss against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Thursday and was ruled out of the contest after the second period, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">D Oliver Ekman-Larsson will not return to tonight\u2019s game (lower body).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/2039915645119385603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ekman-Larsson skated in 11 shifts and logged 7:03 minutes of ice time before he was ruled out. He finished a minus-1 in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran 34-year-old defenceman has missed just three games this season for the Maple Leafs, his second with the team. He has eight goals and 38 points in 72 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ekman-Larsson also played five games as a member of Team Sweden at the Olympics in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With just six games remaining on the schedule, the Maple Leafs are all but out of the playoff race at 32-31-13 &#8211; they sit 11 points out of the final playoff spot in the East after losing to the Sharks on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson suffered a lower-body injury in their 4-1 loss against the San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6013,88,90,89,51314],"class_list":{"0":"post-250684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}