{"id":956988,"date":"2026-11-03T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956988\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:06:09","slug":"maple-leafs-upgrade-injured-john-tavares-to-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956988\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs upgrade injured John Tavares to day-to-day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tavares has not played since Oct. 15 when he suffered a lower-body injury against the Buffalo Sabres, but he skated with the team for the first time since the injury on Tuesday in a red non-contact jersey, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnnaNoelleDua\/status\/2117645276097986635?a=cubeAScMLQcUeMgbfk4&amp;s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">team announced<\/a> his status has been upgraded to day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Tavares won&#8217;t return for Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Utah Mammoth, so his next chance to suit up will be on Saturday when the Leafs host the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,&#8221; Maple Leafs coach Jim Hiller said when asked if Tavares could play on the weekend. &#8220;He\u2019s still got to do some progressing, but closer. We\u2019ll try to get him into a practice sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tavares has two goals and five assists through seven games this season. He also missed a contest earlier this season due to the birth of his son.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has been mostly healthy through his Maple Leafs tenure. He&#8217;s missed just 14 games total over the past five seasons and played in all 82 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto enters Tuesday&#8217;s game sixth in the Atlantic Division with an 8-6-2 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tavares has not played since Oct. 15 when he suffered a lower-body injury against the Buffalo Sabres, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-956988","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\/956988","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=956988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}