{"id":927942,"date":"2026-10-10T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927942\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:56:09","slug":"maple-leafs-john-tavares-to-miss-game-vs-avalanche-after-birth-of-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927942\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs’ John Tavares to miss game vs. Avalanche after birth of son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tavares and his wife, Aryne, welcomed a new addition to their family Friday: baby boy Tucker.<\/p>\n

While practicing in Las Vegas Friday, it was noticed by reporters<\/a> that Tavares was away from the team for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Toronto next heads to Denver to take on the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday and will conclude its three-game swing out west against the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear if Tavares might re-join the team in Salt Lake City or just wait for the club to return home to play against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday.<\/p>\n

As Sportsnet’s Anna Dua noted, Nick Paul was seen taking reps at practice Friday with the second line, suggesting he will take Tavares’ place for the time the veteran will miss.<\/p>\n

Through five games played, Tavares has a goal and three points.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs take on the Avalanche Saturday at 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavares and his wife, Aryne, welcomed a new addition to their family Friday: baby boy Tucker. While practicing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-927942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927942","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=927942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}