{"id":134739,"date":"2023-01-16T17:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=134739"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:29:01","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-forward-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/01\/16\/toronto-maple-leafs-forward-out-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Forward Out For Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced that Nick Robertson is out for the season with a shoulder injury. News of the injury was announced on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injury updates: <\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson had season-ending shoulder surgery and will be out for six months. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto Marlies defenceman Mac Hollowell underwent surgery for a fractured kneecap and will be out a minimum of 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1615084266840285184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nick Robertson, Hollowell Out<\/h2>\n<p>The surgery on Robertson deprives the Leafs of a young player who has really been adding to their forward corps. Fans have been waiting for Robertson to fulfill his potential for a couple of seasons, and it looked like he was finally breaking through. His injury in early December against the Los Angeles Kings wasn&#8217;t thought to be too harmful at the moment. But as time dragged on, fears that his year was over emerged. It&#8217;s not Robertson&#8217;s first long-term injury, but at least it&#8217;s in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/17\/toronto-maple-leafs-lose-nicholas-robertson\/\" target=\"_self\">different location<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his 15 games so far this season, the 21-year-old has two goals and five points. That&#8217;s not normally the stat line of someone vital to a team&#8217;s success. However, Robertson&#8217;s time was often with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tavares<\/a> and either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marnemi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitch Marner<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nylanwi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Nylander<\/a>. Not the usual linemates for someone thought of as a &#8220;fourth liner&#8221;. Since being drafted in the second round of 2019 &#8211; making his debut in the 2020 playoffs &#8211; he&#8217;s put in great work in the AHL. On a team that is as loaded up front as Toronto, he has made a great impression. Being on an entry-level contract doesn&#8217;t hurt, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/holloma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac Hollowell<\/a> has played six games with the Maple Leafs, all this season. The small defenceman helped fill the right side and is an able puck-mover, but his absence doesn&#8217;t affect the NHL team just yet.<\/p>\n<h3>What Happens Now<\/h3>\n<p>Nick Robertson hasn&#8217;t been on the team for a while, so there won&#8217;t be any changes to the lineup. Any hope that he would be back for the playoffs, however, is dashed. It&#8217;s not the message fans, the team, or Robertson himself wanted to hear, but no one&#8217;s getting taken by surprise. One question is if the Leafs will now look for extra help in their bottom six in anticipation of a playoff run. It&#8217;s nice that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcmanbo02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bobby McMann<\/a> is available, but if they can add another cheap NHL-level veteran, they will.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"foqoyYOLRBZ_IDsxjF5zSA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244114421\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'foqoyYOLRBZ_IDsxjF5zSA',sig:'cS9KPTBdVP7aw4TSHMculUkRP5lelkuGJZrc5uUkbKo=',w:'594px',h:'441px',items:'1244114421',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced that Nick Robertson is out for the season with a shoulder injury. News of the injury was announced on Monday afternoon. Injury updates: Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson had season-ending shoulder surgery and will be out for six months. Toronto Marlies defenceman Mac Hollowell underwent surgery for a fractured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":134741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4547,6671,4548],"tags":[1576,3464,955,5125,5951,230],"class_list":["post-134739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-nhl","tag-injury","tag-mac-hollowell","tag-nhl-news","tag-nick-robertson","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news","tag-william-nylander"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}