{"id":325499,"date":"2025-12-02T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:49:07","slug":"josh-norris-returns-from-injury-leads-sabres-past-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325499\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Norris returns from injury, leads Sabres past Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo center Josh Norris<\/a> matched his career-best single game points total in the Sabres’ 5-1 win<\/a> over the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> on Monday night, making a triumphant return to the lineup after suffering an upper-body injury in the team’s season opener.<\/p>\n

Norris scored two goals and assisted on the opening tally 2:46 into the game. His second goal gave the Sabres a commanding 5-1 lead less than a minute into the third period.<\/p>\n

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It was Norris’ sixth three-point game and his first since Jan. 30 against Washington<\/a> while playing for Ottawa.<\/p>\n

That same game was the last time he also had a goal and an assist in the opening period.<\/p>\n

Coach Lindy Ruff said Norris’ remarkable return wasn’t something that he anticipated.<\/p>\n

“It’s speed combined with puck support,” Ruff said. “The puck support was real good, real evident it led to goals. It was a night where we were really connective.”<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Norris, a first-round draft pick by the San Jose Sharks<\/a> in 2017, has struggled with injuries and appeared in only his fifth game with Buffalo since being acquired in a trade last season. The Sabres are his first new team after spending parts of his first six season with the Senators. They have been waiting for him to take on a larger role, so this game could give him some much-needed momentum.<\/p>\n

Norris was injured in the season-opening 4-0 loss to the New York Rangers<\/a> on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo center Josh Norris matched his career-best single game points total in the Sabres’ 5-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-325499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325499","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=325499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}