{"id":485359,"date":"2026-03-04T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/485359\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:20:08","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-defenceman-tanev-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/485359\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tanev out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Chris Tanev is out for the rest of the season, the NHL team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leafs said the veteran underwent successful core muscle surgery in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tanev, 36, only suited up for 11 games in what has been a season riddled by injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-three, 200-pound shutdown blueliner hasn\u2019t played since Dec. 28 in a 3-2 overtime road loss against Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tanev is expected to be able to participate in training camp in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tanev has 210 points (36 goals, 174 assists) in 878 career games since entering the league as an undrafted free agent in 2010-11. He has also played for Vancouver, Calgary and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Chris Tanev is out for the rest of the season, the NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4643,5,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-485359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116172293633757999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485359","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=485359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}