{"id":277573,"date":"2025-11-12T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277573\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:28:10","slug":"maple-leafs-captain-auston-matthews-exits-vs-bruins-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/277573\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews exits vs. Bruins with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will have to play the third period against bitter rivals the Boston Bruins without their leader. <\/p>\n<p>Captain <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"0408afd7-1600-4a36-8ec7-685120334ce1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/auston-matthews\/0408afd7-1600-4a36-8ec7-685120334ce1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Auston Matthews<\/a> exited Tuesday&#8217;s game in the second period, with the team later announcing that the forward will not return with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The injury happened mid-way through the second period when Bruins defenceman Nikita Zadorov laid a heavy hit. Matthews was sent head-first into the boards, but was able to finish his shift before eventually leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the game with 10:51 of ice time and one hit. <\/p>\n<p>The team also announced that goaltender Anthony Stolarz, who was replaced after the first period by Dennis Hildeby, suffered an upper-body injury and will not be available for the remainder of the game. <\/p>\n<p>Through 16 games this season, Matthews has nine goals and 14 points and is averaging a career-high 21:54 of ice time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs will have to play the third period against bitter rivals the Boston Bruins without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-277573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}