{"id":410279,"date":"2026-01-16T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410279\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:58:19","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-william-nylander-exits-vs-vegas-golden-knights-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/410279\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs&#8217; William Nylander exits vs. Vegas Golden Knights 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> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-nylander\/8477939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/william-nylander\/8477939\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a> suffered a lower-body injury in Thursday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">F William Nylander will not return to tonight\u2019s game (lower body).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/2012008406656434201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander exited the contest during the first period and was ruled out by the team at the beginning of the second frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old had a huge impact on Thursday\u2019s contest before he was forced out of action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He made a pass to the point that defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/morgan-rielly\/8476853\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/morgan-rielly\/8476853\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Rielly<\/a> ripped home for the opening marker of the game, and netted a goal of his own just under three minutes later to give the Leafs an early 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander appeared to stumble against the boards after scoring the goal and did not take another shift in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The forward recently returned to Toronto\u2019s lineup after missing six games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander has 17 goals and 31 assists in 37 games this season for the Maple Leafs.<\/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 forward William Nylander suffered a lower-body injury in Thursday\u2019s game against the Vegas Golden Knights.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[4759,5,20,5172,4,66,31,32467,5171,34972],"class_list":{"0":"post-410279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-maple-leafs","11":"tag-mapleleafs","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10","16":"tag-torontomapleleafs","17":"tag-william-nylander-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477939"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115903247447158222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410279","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=410279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}