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Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube said Friday that star centre Auston Matthews is still fighting through the upper-body injury that forced him to miss time earlier this season.
Matthews was held out of the gameday skate ahead of Friday’s matchup with the Buffalo Sabres, but is expected to dress for the game.
“Well it’s tough. I mean, he’s fighting through it and he’s doing, you know, he’s doing a pretty good job out there on the ice,” Berube told reporters. “Like he’s producing and playing hard and working and, you know, we just got to manage it… You know, it’ll get better. We just got to manage it though. And that’s why he’s off the ice today.”
Matthews has 10 goals and 22 points in 23 games this season. He missed nine games due to injury in November, flying to Germany during the absence to meet with a specialist.
The 27-year-old forward has five goals and 11 points in 10 games since returning to the team’s lineup. He led the NHL last season with 69 goals, posting 107 points in 81 games.
The Maple Leafs are set to deploy Matthews on a loaded top line again Friday with wingers William Nylander and Mitch Marner.
The Maple Leafs have won three of their last four games and sit first in the Atlantic Division with a 20-10-2 record through 32 games. They will take on the Sabres in Buffalo on Friday night before playing host to the New York Islanders on Saturday and the league-leading Winnipeg Jets on Monday afternoon.
Islanders projected lineup
Anders Lee — Mathew Barzal — Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Anthony Duclair — Brock Nelson — Kyle Palmieri
Maxim Tsyplakov — Bo Horvat — Simon Holmstrom
Kyle MacLean — Casey Cizikas — Hudson Fasching
Adam Pelech — Ryan Pulock
Alexander Romanov — Noah Dobson
Isaiah George — Scott Mayfield
Ilya Sorokin
Marcus Hogberg
Scratched: Matt Martin, Dennis Cholowski, Pierre Engvall
Injured: Semyon Varlamov (lower body), Mike Reilly (heart)
Maple Leafs projected lineup
Matthew Knies– Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Max Pacioretty — John Tavares — William Nylander
Bobby McMann — Max Domi — Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz — David Kampf — Pontus Holmberg
Morgan Rielly — Conor Timmins
Oliver Ekman-Larsson — Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit — Jake McCabe
Joseph Woll
Dennis Hildeby
Scratched: Ryan Reaves, Connor Dewar, Phillippe Myers
Injured: Jani Hakanpaa (lower body), Calle Jarnkrok (lower body), Anthony Stolarz (lower body)
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