Leafs’ Auston Matthews sidelined a week with injury
The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without their captain for at least the next few games.
Coach Craig Berube told reporters on Thursday that Auston Matthews will be out for at least a week after sustaining a lower-body injury during last Tuesday’s game against the Boston Bruins.
Goaltender Anthony Stolarz is also out day-to-day, with the club calling up Artur Akhtyamov earlier in the morning.
Craig Berube is hopeful Auston Matthews (lower body) could be back within a week. Said injury occurred in the Boston game but was not a result of Zadorov's hit.
Anthony Stolarz (upper body) is day to day.
Neither skated this morning.
Matthews, 28, left the game during the second period after taking a hit from behind from Bruins’ defenseman Nikita Zadorov. Matthews would go to the locker room and not return.
Auston Matthews went to the locker room after taking a hit by Nikita Zadorov. pic.twitter.com/zIeg8e3E6y
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Matthews has nine goals and five assists for 14 points in 17 games with the Leafs this season. Now in his 10th NHL campaign, Matthews, the 2016 No. 1 overall pick, has 410 goals and 331 assists for 741 points in 646 career regular-season games.
His best statistical season came in 2023-24, where he finished with 69 goals and 38 assists for 107 points, setting the high mark for the most goals scored in a single season in the post-lockout era (after 2005).
The Arizona native has also played in 68 career Stanley Cup playoff games, where he’s scored 26 goals and 33 assists for 59 points.
Matthews has won the Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy three times through the first nine seasons of his career, scoring the most goals in the league in 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2023-24. Following his 2021-22 season, where he scored 60 goals and 46 assists for 106 points, Matthews won the Hart Trophy for the league’s most valuable player, the first time a Maple Leaf had won the award since Ted Kennedy in 1954-55.
The Leafs are 8-8-1 with 17 points in 2025-26, having lost three straight. Their next game is Thursday against the Los Angeles Kings, followed by a Saturday night road contest against their Original Six rival, the Chicago Blackhawks.