{"id":507958,"date":"2026-03-17T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/507958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:15:12","slug":"ice-chips-maple-leafs-d-ekman-larsson-absent-from-morning-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/507958\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Chips: Maple Leafs D Ekman-Larsson absent from morning skate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Veteran defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/oliver-ekman-larsson\/8475171\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/oliver-ekman-larsson\/8475171\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> was absent from the Leafs\u2019 morning skate on Tuesday as Toronto prepares to take on the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ekman-Larsson missed Sunday\u2019s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> for the birth of his child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 34-year-old Swede has eight goals and 27 assists over 65 games with the Maple Leafs in 2025-26, his second season with the organization. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joseph-woll\/8479361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joseph-woll\/8479361\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Woll<\/a> is expected to get the start on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-pezzetta\/8479543\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-pezzetta\/8479543\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pezzetta<\/a> and defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/henry-thrun\/8481567\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/henry-thrun\/8481567\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Thrun<\/a> were sent down to the American Hockey League on Tuesday morning as the Toronto Marlies have a afternoon game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs sit second last in the Atlantic Division with a 29-27-12 record through 68 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maple Leafs\u2019 Projected Lines <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">F<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maccelli &#8211; Tavares &#8211; Nylander<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knies &#8211; Domi &#8211; Cowan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joshua &#8211; Groulx &#8211; Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lorentz &#8211; Quillan &#8211; Jarnkrok<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">D<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rielly &#8211; Myers <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCabe &#8211; Carlo <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Benoit &#8211; Stecher<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">G<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Woll starts <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stolarz<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadiens forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kirby-dach\/8481523\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a> will miss two-to-four weeks with an upper-body injury, the team announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">L&#8217;attaquant Kirby Dach sera \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9cart du jeu pour une p\u00e9riode de 2 \u00e0 4 semaines en raison d&#8217;une blessure au haut du corps.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Kirby Dach will be out for 2 to 4 weeks due to an upper-body injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zBMEU10Xhp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zBMEU10Xhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/2033913763695366376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old exited Sunday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> three minutes into the first period after taking a hit from Ducks\u2019 winger Jeffrey Viel. Dach fell to the ice and gingerly made his way back to the dressing room before he was ruled out for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep updated on all the injury news and roster updates from around the NHL with daily Ice Chips.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[4759,5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-507958","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-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116245176261607659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507958","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=507958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}