Maple Leafs Takeaways: No middle ground for forwards, beat goes on for Bob
Four forgettable periods for the Maple Leafs and three straight losses have tempered their early October enthusiasm.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will have to adjust to playing without one of their key players following the announcement on Saturday that centre John Tavares is out for an indefinite period due to a lower-body injury. The timeline suggests Tavares could be sidelined for up to six weeks. Standing at 36 years old, Tavares has contributed 2 goals and 5 assists in 7 games this season so far.
The incident occurred during Toronto's 5-4 overtime loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday, when he was involved in a collision with the Sabres' Josh Norris in the defensive zone. Tavares' teammate Nick Paul was also involved in the incident, pushing Norris into Tavares, causing him to go down and stay on the ice before being helped to the locker room.
In other injury news, the Leafs are also dealing with the absence of veteran shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev, who has been out week-to-week with an upper-body injury since last Saturday's 6-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche. This development comes as Global News reports on the injury situation for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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- Maple Leafs centre John Tavares out week-to-week with lower-body injury winnipegfreepress.com
- Maple Leafs’ John Tavares out week-to-week with lower-body injury toronto.citynews.ca
- Maple Leafs announce John Tavares out on week-to-week basis torontosun.com
- Bobrovsky, Maple Leafs looking to find traction globalnews.ca
