The Real Reason Auston Matthews Went To Germany For Treatment Is Revealed

Maple Leafs' Brad Treliving Explains Why Auston Matthews Flew To Germany To Get His Undisclosed Upper-Body Issue Checked Out

Matthews has been day-to-day with an ailment since Nov. 5 and has missed the team's last six games.

David Alter • Nov 19th, 2024

How severe is Auston Matthews' upper-body injury? It turns out the Toronto Maple Leafs star player had to fly overseas to find out.

Speaking to the media following Tuesday's practice, Maple Leafs GM Auston Matthews gave an update on the talented forward.

We haven't been trying to be cryptic with all this stuff. We've been calling him day-to day-because that's what he's been. We've looked at the schedule here and what we're trying to do is use this week to hopefully get this thing behind him. As part of that, he and our Doc Forman went over to Germany to see a doc that he's used in the past. More as a general checkup, but also to get some work done on his thing. It's not alarming. It was something we've been discussing, knowing that he's going to be getting this week, but we're hopeful that once we get through the week here, he'll be back up and skating and his return to play would be after that. So again, nothing new. There's been no setbacks. Everything's been actually going quite well. We're just trying to use the days that we've got here with less games being played to just try to get this behind us.

Matthews has been on the ice for at least a couple of sessions but alarm bells set off when the team said the player hadn't been on the ice for a while. Flying over to Germany would explain much of why he hasn't been able to skate.

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