Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews' medical trip to Germany clarified by GM Treliving (image credit: IMAGN)
Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brad Treliving addressed Auston Matthews’ trip to Germany for treatment of his upper-body injury. Matthews had been dealing with the injury for a while. With a light schedule of games, the team saw it as a good time for him to get treatment.
“It’s bugged him for a bit,” Treliving said on Friday, via The Athletic. “With time, it’ll get behind him. We looked at the schedule. We had like three games over two and a half weeks."
After the Maple Leafs' 4-3 overtime win over the Edmonton Oilers on Nov. 16, they only had one game in the next seven days. Toronto won 3-0 against the Vegas Golden Knights without its captain in the lineup.
