{"id":308567,"date":"2025-11-26T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308567\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:42:09","slug":"matthews-to-return-for-maple-leafs-against-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308567\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews to return for Maple Leafs against Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/auston-matthews-8479318\" title=\"Auston Matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> will return to the lineup for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET; FDSNOH, SNP, SNO, SNE, SN360).<\/p>\n<p>The center and Toronto captain has missed the past five games because of a lower-body injury. He had previously not missed a game this season after missing 15 last year because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews has 14 points (nine goals, five assists) in 17 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/matthew-knies-8482720\" title=\"Matthew Knies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Knies<\/a> (lower body) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-roy-8478462\" title=\"Nicolas Roy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Roy<\/a> (upper body) will also each return to the lineup Wednesday after missing the past three games.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (9-10-3) was 1-3-1 without Matthews and enters Wednesday last in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews will return to the lineup for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Columbus Blue Jackets on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-308567","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\/308567","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=308567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}