Maple Leafs Defenseman To Miss More Time Than Expected with Significant Injury

The Maple Leafs have already seen both Timothy Liljegren and John Klingberg go down, so when Mark Giordano suffered a broken finger against the Florida Panthers, things got significantly worse.

Originally, Giordano was seen as 'week-to-week', with fears that he may miss up to four-to-six weeks, but not being put on LTIR gave some fans hope that he could tough it out.

While there's been no official update on the injury itself, the Maple Leafs have now placed him on LTIR, meaning that he'll miss at least 24 games due to league policy around Long Term Injury Reserve.

This is a brutal hit to the Leafs defensive stocks, and could force their hand on pursuing the likes of Chris Tanev or Noah Hanifin, and while he's not producing offensively the way he once did, Gio has been a key part of this Leafs team, and his absence, however long will certainly be noticed.

As Read on Maple Leafs Daily - Injury to Leafs veteran may be worse than initially feared