Oct 11, 2025, 12:28 PM ET<\/p>\n
BOSTON — Buffalo Sabres<\/a> top-line center Josh Norris<\/a> is out indefinitely with an upper-body injury, coach Lindy Ruff announced Saturday.<\/p>\n Ruff said Norris will miss “a significant amount of time” when providing the update before Buffalo’s game at Boston, and two days after the center was injured in a 4-0 season-opening loss to the New York Rangers<\/a>. Ruff previously said the injury is a new one, but similar to a torn oblique that led to Norris missing the final month of last season.<\/p>\n Norris was hurt with about five minutes left when he fell forward and crumpled to the ice after losing a faceoff to Mika Zibanejad<\/a> in front of the Sabres’ bench.<\/p>\n It’s the latest setback for Norris, 26, who had three operations to correct a shoulder issue dating to his college career at Michigan. And it’s a major blow to the Sabres, who acquired Norris in a trade that sent center Dylan Cozens<\/a> and defenseman Dennis Gilbert<\/a> to Ottawa in March.<\/p>\n Norris has topped 20 goals three times, including 35 in 2021-22. But he’s yet to play a full season because of injuries over his five-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 11, 2025, 12:28 PM ET BOSTON — Buffalo Sabres top-line center Josh Norris is out indefinitely with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-217210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}