{"id":685121,"date":"2026-10-12T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/685121\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:33:16","slug":"maple-leafs-place-chris-tanev-on-ir-recall-marshall-rifai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/685121\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs place Chris Tanev on IR, recall Marshall Rifai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defenceman has been placed on injured reserve, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHL_Rosters\/status\/2109404468274245653?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NHL roster page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tanev exited Saturday&#8217;s win over the Colorado Avalanche halfway through the first period with an upper-body injury. <\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old skated off in visible discomfort after a collision with Avalanche forward Artturi Lehkonen in front of the Maple Leafs&#8217; net. <\/p>\n<p>Tanev has one assist over Toronto&#8217;s first six games while averaging 16:51 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran blue liner was limited to just 11 games last season by multiple injuries and underwent season-ending core muscle surgery in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs recalled Marshall Rifai from the Toronto Marlies in a corresponding move. He&#8217;s been held pointless through three games in the AHL this season. <\/p>\n<p>Rifai has just three games of NHL experience, all with the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defenceman has been placed on injured reserve, according to the NHL roster page. Tanev exited Saturday&#8217;s win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":["post-685121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-hockey","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-nhl","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117428905747298659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685121","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=685121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}