Leafs forward Knies placed on injured reserve

TORONTO – The injury-ravaged Toronto Maple Leafs placed Matthew Knies connected injured reserve Friday and signed chap guardant Alex Nylander to a one-year contract, recalling him from the AHL Marlies.

Knies was wounded successful a mid-ice cheque by Las Vegas defenceman Zach Whitecloud successful the Toronto’s 3-0 location triumph Wednesday. Knies did not instrumentality and has been placed connected injured reserve retroactive to Wednesday with an upper-body injury.

Toronto is already missing skipper Auston Matthews, Max Domi, David Kampf, Max Pacioretty and Calle Jarnkrok owed to injury, arsenic good arsenic Ryan Reaves, who is 1 crippled into his five-game prohibition for felling Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse with an amerciable cheque to the head.

Whitecloud, who stood up arsenic helium delivered the hit, was not penalized for the punishing cheque contempt video review, but got a insignificant roughing punishment for tangling with Simon Benoit, who got a four-minute roughing telephone for his attempted retribution.

“They thought it was a cleanable deed truthful it’s a cleanable hit,” Leafs manager Craig Berube said aft the game, referencing the league. “Really there’s thing to say.”

Under league rules, a subordinate placed connected Injured reserve is ineligible to vie successful NHL games for astatine slightest 7 days. Toronto (12-6-2) hosts Utah connected Sunday earlier heading to Florida to play astatine the Panthers connected Wednesday.

Nylander’s declaration is worthy $775,000.

The 26-year-old Nylander, the younger member of Leafs prima William Nylander, has 8 goals and 4 assists successful 14 games with the Toronto Marlies this season.

The six-foot-one 205-pounder has 222 vocation points (102 goals, 120 assists) successful 344 regular-season AHL games divided betwixt Toronto, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Rockford and Rochester.

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The younger Nylander has 49 points (25 goals, 24 assists) successful 121 vocation NHL games divided betwixt Columbus, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Buffalo.

He won a metallic medal with Sweden astatine the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championships.

Alex Nylander joined the Toronto enactment arsenic a escaped agent, signing a one-year AHL declaration successful July. He was primitively selected by the Sabres successful the archetypal circular (eight overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft.

The injuries person promoted a drawstring of call-ups for the Leafs. Fraser Minter scored his archetypal NHL extremity Wednesday successful his play debut and 5th vocation NHL crippled portion Russian Nikita Grebenkin made his NHL debut.

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This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 22, 2024.