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What's wrong with Auston Matthews?

New York Times: Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews unsure if he’ll fully get past injury this season: ‘I hope so’
Speaking for the first time since he last played on Dec. 20, Matthews said he hoped he would eventually be able to move past his current injury, an undisclosed ailment that has bothered him since training camp, but couldn’t be sure.

“I don’t know. I hope so,” Matthews said. “That’s obviously the goal. It’s tricky with these things sometimes. It’s a physical sport, it’s a contact sport, so things happen out there sometimes that are out of your control. So I’m just trying to manage it as best as I can, and we can, and you just go from there.”
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“When you’re injured as a player and (people) are always asking you ‘how you feeling?’ it gets annoying. When he’s available, he’ll let us know,” head coach Craig Berube said. “Right now, the situation we’re in with him, I’m preparing the team to play without him. We’ll know when he’s ready and we’ll make adjustments.”
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Matthews acknowledged a cross-check from Buffalo Sabres defenceman Dennis Gilbert was only partly to blame for his absence. “But yeah, I’d say that definitely didn’t help the cause,” he said. .. Matthews said he was feeling “discomfort” and “pain” as he twice played through the injury.

Matthews said his recent rest is helping with his recovery but added, “I’m not really somebody that likes to stay still for long, so I’m just trying to do what I can, maybe without overexerting certain things. I’m trying to just stay in as good shape as you can when you can’t skate and stuff like that.”
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Whatever the Cup odds were, this will is very likely to lower them.

I cannot imagine him playing in the 4 Nations after that report.
 
The silver lining, if there ever is one when your franchise 1C runs into health issues, is maybe he will be more amenable to one of those deferred salary contracts on his next deal, for some cost assurances while his career tails off. Deferred bonuses would make it easier to take one-year Spezza deals after his prime contracts are up.
 
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