John Klingberg is officially out for the season with a hip injury. He was placed on Long-Term Injured Reserve on Nov. 23 and has a projected recovery time between five and six months. He last played Nov. 11 in a 5-2 victory against the Vancouver Canucks. He had tried other ways to put off the surgery, like patchwork. The Maple Leafs new general manager Brad Treliving said "The option that we looked at was patchwork, which he tried to do. This was really aggravated in the Florida game which was game four (Oct. 19) and then you saw him patchwork it for a few weeks so ultimately we wanted to take some time on how to get to the best outcome and ultimately this needs to be done."

The Maple Leafs are seeming to look for new talent to fill the holes in their lineup. "You've got clarity, which is really important versus saying is he or isn't he (coming back)," Treliving said. "We've gone through this period of time of is he or isn't he. You never like to see a player go down, but we do have clarity now on he is not going to be available to us, so it's next man up and the manager has to continue to look at our group of ways that we can help ourselves." It will be very interesting to see what they do to work around the missing players in their roster.