Injury Report: Matthews - Day to Day

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James Duthie: No Auston Matthews for the Toronto Maple Leafs against Boston. It doesn't sound too serious, CJ, but likely to extend for a least a few days?

Chris Johnston: Yeah, I think certainly with the Leafs having back-to-backs [on] Friday and Saturday, that in addition to missing Tuesday's game against Boston, wouldn't be surprising to see Auston Matthews miss a little bit more time. You're right when you say there's not a lot of concern, I don't get the sense there's any big picture alarms going off here. And really how we got here, is Auston Matthews missed a little bit of time during training camp and I believe he's been managing this, to some degree, throughout the season, hasn't been 100 per cent. Obviously, wanted to get off to a good start during the year. He's been pushing through it, but after a busy week, last week three games in four days, over the weekend a decision was made to just shut him down, give his body a little bit of time to rest here. I think we'll see him sooner than later, but will probably miss more than the one game.

So basically they gave him the week off to recover from whatever and signalling the week off isn't the same as week to week.