Sabres forward out ‘significant’ time with another major injury

• Josh Norris will miss a “significant amount of time’ after suffering his second major injury since being acquired at the 2025 NHL trade deadline.
• Norris has been limited to four games since arriving to the Sabres because of two injuries.
• Here are other injury updates around the NHL.

He will miss a “significant amount of time,’ coach Lindy Ruff told reporters, after suffering his second major injury since being acquired at the 2025 NHL trade deadline.

‘I don’t know what that amount is,’ Ruff said on Saturday, Oct. 11. ‘He’s still being evaluated.’

Norris missed the remainder of the 2024-25 season with an oblique injury in his third game after arriving from the Ottawa Senators in the Dylan Cozens trade in March.

This season, he suffered an upper-body injury in a loss to the New York Rangers in the Sabres’ opener. He was hurt while taking a faceoff and was slow getting to the bench.

Ruff said this season’s injury is different from last season’s. Norris also had shoulder issues earlier in his NHL career.

He has been limited to four games by separate injuries with the Sabres. He had a goal and an assist last season with Buffalo and no points in his lone game this season.

He had 90 goals and 156 points in 236 career games in five-plus seasons with the Senators before the trade.

The Sabres are trying to end a 14-year playoff drought.

Other NHL injury updates

• Rangers forward Vincent Trocheck is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
• Colorado Avalanche defenseman Samuel Girard is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
• Carolina Hurricanes goalie Pyotr Kochetkov is out at least a week with a lower-body injury.