Toronto Maple Leafs star center Auston Matthews and assistant coach Dean Chynoweth were excluded from practice Monday for what the team called “precautionary reasons.”
The Leafs announced the absences on Twitter, but did not provide further details.
Toronto has been working through a COVID-19 outbreak that saw 14 players and seven staff members placed on the NHL’s coronavirus protocol at its peak. Leafs defender Timothy Liljegren was the only player still isolated when they beat the visiting Ottawa Senators 6-0 on Saturday.
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Matthews is coming off an exceptional December that saw him named the NHL’s first star of the month after scoring 10 goals and four assists in seven games.
The 24-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 in June 2020 at his home in Arizona, while the 2019-20 season was called off due to the pandemic.
The Leafs will host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. Toronto’s home game scheduled for Monday night against the Carolina Hurricanes was one of several games postponed by the NHL due to arena capacity restrictions in Canada.
This Canadian Press report was first published on January 3, 2022.
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