{"id":919491,"date":"2026-10-03T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919491\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:00:09","slug":"game-day-vs-ottawa-oct-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919491\/","title":{"rendered":"GAME DAY vs OTTAWA | Oct. 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 3, 2026 \u2022 7:00 PM EST \u2022 SCOTIABANK ARENA (TORONTO, ON)<br \/>TV: SPORTSNET \u2022 RADIO: SPORTSNET 590<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/info\/press-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAPLE LEAFS DIGITAL PRESS BOX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TODAY\u2019S\u00a0MATCHUP Tonight&#8217;s game is Toronto&#8217;s first of twenty-seven Saturday night games and the first of four against their Atlantic Division and Battle of Ontario rivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>QUICK HITS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Third team Toronto will face who are skating in their opening game of the season (Sept. 29 &#8211; MTL, Sept. 30 &#8211; NYI, and Oct. 3 &#8211; OTT).\u00a0<br \/>\nAssociate Coach, Daniel Alfredsson will be behind the bench for the Maple Leafs against the team he captained for 13 seasons (1999-2013).\u00a0<br \/>\nJohn Tavares will skate in his 600th career game as a Toronto Maple Leaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCTOBER 3, 2026 \u2022 7:00 PM EST \u2022 SCOTIABANK ARENA (TORONTO, ON)TV: SPORTSNET \u2022 RADIO: SPORTSNET 590 MAPLE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-919491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919491","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=919491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}