In today’s NHL rumour rundown, we start with more on Connor Hellebuyck, and how it appears Josh Norris and his health concerns was the hang-up in a deal with the Buffalo Sabres.
Ending a long drought just to get into the playoffs, the Buffalo Sabres take their historic season one step further on Friday night.
The Buffalo Sabres won’t be at full strength for their first road game of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. According to Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff, forward Josh Norris will not be available for Thursday’s Game 3 against the Boston Bruins, and is considered day-to-day.
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The Sabres won’t have center Joshua Norris available tonight for Game 3 of their first-round series against the Bruins, head coach Lindy Ruff said (via Paul Hamilton of WGR Sports Radio 550).
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Josh Norris scored twice as Buffalo found the net four times in the first period, and the Sabres easily won their third straight outing since the Winter Olympics break in a 6-2 rout of the host Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.
The Sabres are expected to have goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and center Joshua Norris back in the lineup when their schedule resumes against the Devils on Wednesday, according to the team’s daily injury report.
The Buffalo Sabres are set to get some reinforcements coming out of the Olympic break, as center Josh Norris and goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen will be available for the Sabres during their road trip, according to head coach Lindy Ruff.
The Buffalo Sabres placed center Josh Norris on injured reserve Monday, then activated goaltender Alex Lyon off IR, according to The Buffalo News reporter Rachel Lenzi.
Josh Norris' awful injury luck persisted Sunday as the Buffalo Sabres center was ruled out on a week-to-week basis with an upper-body issue. Norris missed Buffalo's last two games after being cross-checked in the ribs Wednesday, which forced him to depart in the second period of a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Buffalo Sabres ruled forward Josh Norris out from the remainder of their game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday after he left midway through the second period with an upper-body injury.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Josh Norris is healthy and on a roll. So, too, are the Buffalo Sabres, riding a six-game winning streak. He and his teammates will aim to keep that going when they visit the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday.
The Buffalo Sabres are thrilled to have Josh Norris back in the lineup, to say the least. Norris and the Sabres look to build off one of their best wins of the season Wednesday when they visit the Philadelphia Flyers.
Oft-injured center Josh Norris is back in the Buffalo Sabres' lineup after recovering from an upper-body issue he sustained in the season opener. Wingers Zach Benson and Tage Thompson flanked Norris on the top line at morning skate as the Sabres prepared to host the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night.
Buffalo Sabres’ forward Josh Norris has added yet another injury to his long list throughout his NHL career, as he suffered it late in the third period in a 4-0 loss vs the New York Rangers on Thursday night after taking a faceoff.
The Buffalo Sabres received a tough early-season blow as forward Josh Norris is set to miss a “significant amount of time” with an upper-body injury, head coach Lindy Ruff confirmed this weekend.
The Buffalo Sabres won’t be able to turn to center Josh Norris on Saturday night and will have to wait to know the full extent of the injury he suffered
It is a tough but all-too-familiar blow for the 26-year-old as injuries have dogged him throughout his seven NHL seasons.
There are a lot of factors that will come into play for the Buffalo Sabres when the 2025-26 season begins. One of the biggest question marks for them is going to be the health and performance of fresh face Josh Norris, who they acquired from the Ottawa Senators on March 7, 2025, for Dylan Cozens.
If one paid attention to the scuttlebutt surrounding the 2025 NHL Trade Deadline – as the vast majority of us did – one no doubt caught wind of a rumour about a Canucks/Senators trade that almost went down.
When the Buffalo Sabres traded for Josh Norris at the deadline, he seemed like a good fit. Dylan Cozens, whom the Sabres traded to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Norris, had struggled for a season and a half before the Sabres moved him.
Josh Norris had made a home in the NHL in Ottawa, and after the trade to Buffalo, he was unsurprisingly devastated by his change in circumstances.
He had only recently returned to the lineup after missing two games with an upper-body issue.
David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reports that the Ottawa Senators are actively exploring potential roster moves while firmly dismissing rumors of a Brady Tkachuk trade.
The Ottawa Senators may be on the verge of a major shake-up. According to Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff Live, the organization has engaged in internal discussions about breaking up its young core, with 25-year-old center Josh Norris emerging as a potential trade candidate.
The Ottawa Senators and Los Angeles Kings were involved in a barn burner on the ice Monday afternoon.
The Edmonton Oilers continue to sit near the top of various power rankings, climbing in Daily Faceoff’s latest look, and falling in TSN’s Sportlogiq rankings.
It’s another concerning development for the 24-year-old as he deals with seemingly consistent shoulder injuries. They limited him to just eight games last season, meaning he’ll have played only 35 percent of the Senators’ games since 2022 once this campaign concludes.
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