{"id":428732,"date":"2023-03-07T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428732"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:16:41","slug":"leafs-expect-captain-tavares-to-return-against-the-oilers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/leafs-expect-captain-tavares-to-return-against-the-oilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs expect captain Tavares to return against Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> captain John Tavares is expected to return to action on Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/edmonton-oilers\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">Tavares practiced in full on Monday and took a full morning skate on Tuesday, but the team took the cautious approach with its captain who has a history of concussions and woke up feeling not right on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"seo-media-query undefined\">\u201cWe\u2019ll give him that time, of course,\u201d said Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe. \u201cWith the nature of the injury, I think we\u2019ll see him back on his skates pretty quickly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"seo-media-query undefined\">&#8220;And that\u2019s a good sign. We\u2019ll welcome him back when he\u2019s good and ready.\u201d<\/div>\n<p class=\"text-block-container\">\u201cObviously feeling good and would love to be in,\u201d said Tavares. \u201cBut the medical staff and I think as we talked through things, it was best just to be precautionary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Maple Leafs captain John Tavares is expected to return to action on Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers, Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428733,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,16735,16734],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Tavares has a history of concussions and woke up feeling not right on Sunday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428732"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428732"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}