Nov 12, 2025, 12:19 AM ET<\/p>\n
BOSTON — Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> forward Auston Matthews<\/a> left his team’s 5-3 loss<\/a> to the Boston Bruins<\/a> at TD Garden Tuesday night with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n Matthews, who did not play in the third period, took a hit into the sideboards from behind by Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov<\/a> midway through the second period. Though Zadorov took a roughing call in the third period, he was not penalized for the hit on Matthews.<\/p>\n “I think it’s a penalty, personally,” Toronto coach Craig Berube. “But I’m not the referee. I don’t like it. I don’t like the hit. He was in a vulnerable position.”<\/p>\n Berube did not have an update on Matthews, who has nine goals and 14 points this season, after the loss.<\/p>\n “I don’t know exactly,” he said. “I can’t give you a timeline or how serious it is right now. I’m not sure when he hurt it, to be honest with you.”<\/p>\n Anthony Stolarz<\/a> started in goal for Toronto and gave up three first-period goals on 11 shots and was replaced for the second period by Dennis Hildeby<\/a>, who had 19 stops. The team said Stolarz has an upper-body injury, but Berube didn’t believe it to be “serious.” Berube added, “I think he’ll be fine.”<\/p>\n All told, it was a night to forget for the Maple Leafs, who have lost three in a row. Steven Lorentz<\/a>, Bobby McMann<\/a> and Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a> also scored for Toronto, which was swept in a quick two-game home-and-home set with Boston.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n The news was much better for the home team. David Pastrnak<\/a> scored twice to move past 400 goals for his career, and added an assist, as the rebuilding Bruins won their seventh consecutive game.<\/p>\n Pavel Zacha<\/a>, Hampus Lindholm<\/a> and Alex Steeves<\/a> also scored for the Bruins while Jeremy Swayman<\/a> made 30 saves. Charlie McAvoy<\/a> had a pair of assists in the win.<\/p>\n Pastrnak’s goal 49 seconds into the second period was the 400th of his career and gave the Bruins a 4-1 lead. He added a power-play goal at 9:48 of the third. He is the sixth player to score 400 or more goals in a Bruins jersey, and is now one goal behind fifth-place Rick Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n Steeves’ goal was his first as a Bruin after four years in the Toronto organization.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 12, 2025, 12:19 AM ET BOSTON — Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews left his team’s 5-3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-286801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}