{"id":249463,"date":"2025-10-30T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:52:12","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-john-tavares-scores-500th-career-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249463\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 John Tavares scores 500th career goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/john-tavares\/8475166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/john-tavares\/8475166\" target=\"_blank\">John Tavares<\/a> has joined the 500-goal club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran centre scored in the third period on Wednesday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> to reach the plateau and record his sixth marker of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tavares also joined Hall-of-Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/lanny-mcdonald\/8449423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/lanny-mcdonald\/8449423\" target=\"_blank\">Lanny McDonald<\/a> for 48th on the NHL\u2019s all-time goal scoring list. Up next is Joe Mullen in 47th place with 502.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tavares now has 1,128 points in 1,195 career NHL regular season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Mississauga, Ont. native is in his eighth season with the Leafs after beginning his career during the 2009-10 season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs forward John Tavares has joined the 500-goal club. The veteran centre scored in the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}