{"id":876944,"date":"2026-10-10T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876944\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:36:09","slug":"nhl-status-report-tavares-out-for-maple-leafs-after-birth-of-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876944\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Tavares out for Maple Leafs after birth of son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-tavares-8475166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Tavares<\/a> will not play for the Maple Leafs at the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday (9 p.m. ET; NHLN, ALT, SNP, SNW, SNO) following the birth of his son, Tucker. It is Tavares\u2019 fourth child. Tavares, a forward, has three points (one goal, two assists) in Toronto\u2019s first five games (2-2-1). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicholas-paul-8477426\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Paul<\/a>, is expected to slide in to Tavares\u2019 top-six role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs John Tavares will not play for the Maple Leafs at the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-876944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}