{"id":930626,"date":"2026-10-12T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930626\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:04:09","slug":"maple-leafs-john-tavares-re-joins-team-in-utah-after-birth-of-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930626\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; John Tavares re-joins team in Utah after birth of son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing Saturday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Avalanche to celebrate the birth of his son, Tucker, <a data-player=\"4325e70e-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/john-tavares\/4325e70e-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Tavares<\/a> rejoined the team in Salt Lake City on Monday ahead of the team&#8217;s tilt Tuesday with the Utah Mammoth, Sportsnet&#8217;s Luke Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2109717951301693448\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares had been away from the Maple Leafs since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Through five games played this season, Tavares has a goal and three points.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is in the midst of a three-game Western Conference road trip that will conclude Tuesday against the Mammoth (9 p.m. ET \/ 6 p.m. PT on Sportsnet+). The Leafs have recorded a 1-0-1 record on the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing Saturday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Avalanche to celebrate the birth of his son, Tucker, John Tavares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-930626","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\/930626","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=930626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}