The Toronto Maple Leafs had an unfortunate setback emerge at practice today as one of their star forwards was absent. <h2>Tavares Missing From Leafs Practice</h2> Leafs reporter David Alter just shared some unfortunate news regarding the Toronto Maple Leafs and their captain John Tavares. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/dalter/status/1758875042933256530?s=20'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> John Tavares is not present as the skate begins. Tavares played in the Leafs last game but looked quite sick on the bench. Hopefully this is just an illness and not an injury as losing Tavares would be crushing for the Leafs.