Auston Matthews won't be in the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup on Wednesday against the Vegas Golden Knights as he deals with an upper-body injury. Given Toronto's light schedule this week, with games against Vegas on Wednesday and Utah Hockey Club on Sunday,

Matthews will miss his seventh-straight game Wednesday when the Maple Leafs host the Vegas Golden Knights at Scotiabank Arena (7:30 p.m. ET; TVAS, SN, SCRIPPS) but Treliving declined to rule him out for the following game, Sunday against the Utah Hockey Club.

Toronto taking advantage of a relatively lighter schedule this week, with only two games in eight days, to help the Leafs captain return to health.

TORONTO -- Auston Matthews missed his fifth straight game because of an upper-body injury when the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Washington Capitals 4-3 in overtime at Capital One Arena in Washington on Wednesday.

GM Brad Treliving said the development is ‘not alarming,’ and that Matthews likely will return to game action Nov. 27 against the Florida Panthers

Toronto Maple Leafs' forward Auston Matthews "isn't getting worse" but remains at least another week away from returning from an undisclosed upper-body injury. That was the latest from Leafs' coach Craig Berube on Monday when questioned about the status of his team's captain,

According to a report from NHL insider Chris Johnston, Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has left the team and has travelled to Munich, Germany to see a medical specialist. Check it out: “More as a general check-up but also to get some work done on his thing,

Day. Not only was Auston Matthews not on the ice again Tuesday, he wasn’t even in the country, but seeing a doctor in Munich Germany this week to try and help what has been a mysterious upper-body injury that has kept the Rocket Richard Trophy-winning captain out since Nov.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have revealed that captain Auston Matthews has traveled to Germany for further evaluation of his upper-body injury.

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews went to a clinic in Germany to receive treatment for an upper-body injury that has kept him out of the lineup for the past three weeks.