{"id":410215,"date":"2026-01-16T05:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410215\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:09:10","slug":"maple-leafs-william-nylander-exits-game-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410215\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; William Nylander exits game with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 William Nylander, who leads the Maple Leafs in scoring, went to the locker room late in the first period of Toronto&#8217;s Thursday night game against the Vegas Golden Knights with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Teammate Oliver Ekman-Larsson also left the ice in the first, but returned for the second period.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs said that Nylander would not return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the game with a team-leading 30 assists and 46 points. Nylander added to those totals with a goal and an assist against the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>His overtime goal gave the Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory at Colorado on Monday night to end the Avalanche&#8217;s 17-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year veteran has been an ironman for the Maple Leafs, having appeared in all 82 games each of the past three seasons and in 81 games in 2021-22. However, he had just returned to action Saturday after missing six games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 William Nylander, who leads the Maple Leafs in scoring, went to the locker room late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171,1105],"class_list":{"0":"post-410215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115903055105269247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}