{"id":2791,"date":"2025-04-27T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/2791\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:30:12","slug":"maple-leafs-provide-update-on-john-tavares-following-injury-scare-in-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/2791\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs Provide Update on John Tavares Following Injury Scare in Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maple Leafs Provide Update on John Tavares Following Injury Scare in Game 4 <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/553937.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Tavares was injured in overtime\" title=\"John Tavares was injured in overtime\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Marc DesRosiers-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFollowing a disappointing overtime loss in Game 4 to the Ottawa Senators, the Leafs provided an update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/John-Tavares-13149\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"John Tavares profile and hockey stats\">John Tavares<\/a> following his injury scare.The hit forced Tavares to leave the extra period for what many suspect as concussion protocol. Unfortunately for the Leafs, moments later they got a four-minute power play and had to substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Morgan-Rielly-29302\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Morgan Rielly profile and hockey stats\">Morgan Rielly<\/a> onto the top unit in Tavares&#8217; absence.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Tavares at such a critical point, particularly when the five-forward power play unit had been so dominant, ultimately cost the Leafs the sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Following the game, Leafs head coach Craig Berube did not seem overly concerned about Tavares&#8217; availability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is any concern. He had to go off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6314587\/2025\/04\/27\/maple-leafs-john-tavares-injury-nhl-playoffs\/?source=user_shared_article\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In speaking with reporters following the game<\/a>, many of the Leafs that were asked about the hit said they did not see it. Nylander, like Berube, also said he doesn&#8217;t see any concern over Tavares&#8217; availability for Game 5, given that he returned in OT of Game 4.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rest of the team being asked about the hit, Tavares was not made available to the media following the game.<\/p>\n<p>There likely won&#8217;t be a further update on Tavares until the Leafs return to practice on Monday before Game 5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on MapleLeafsDaily<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/nhl-team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/Javascript:void(save_clic(\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/157.png\" alt=\"pub\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" defer=\"defer\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMAPLELEAFSDAILY.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs Provide Update on John Tavares Following Injury Scare in Game 4 Photo credit: Marc DesRosiers-Imagn Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1122,5,1575,611,456,4,25,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-2791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-game-4","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-injury-update","11":"tag-john-tavares","12":"tag-leafs-news-and-rumours","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-ottawa-senators","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114410646650591091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}