Toronto Maple Leafs forward Matthew Knies will not be in the lineup on Tuesday as the Toronto Maple Leafs prepare to host the St. Louis Blues and snap a five-game losing streak. The team says it’s a lower-body injury.
Knies has been one of the team’s most productive forwards in what’s been an otherwise dark season for the Maple Leafs, with five goals and 22 points in 19 games on the season so far. It’s unknown what the injury came from, given that Knies had been skating with Max Domi and Easton Cowan, but whatever it was flared up before game time and will cause the young Maple Leafs star to miss the game.
Knies’ injury adds to an ever-growing grocery list of injuries at the moment, currently missing Auston Matthews, Anthony Stolarz, Scott Laughton, and Chris Tanev all due to injuries. None of these are expected to be long-term, but all four required a stint on the injured reserve. In addition to this, head coach Craig Berube announced that forward Nicolas Roy would miss a couple of games due to injury as well.
General manager Brad Treliving spoke to the media on Tuesday ahead of practice for his quarter-annual press conference, and he brushed off the notion that injuries are making it hard for the Maple Leafs to win games.
“We’re going through injuries, but you know what? Everyone goes through injury. So, you look around the league, there are good teams that have injuries. So, to me, that’s a losing mentality. I’ve been in this game a long time, I’ve yet to have a meeting with a player that says ‘you know what? Give me less opportunity’. Everybody wants more opportunity. Everybody wants a bigger role.”
The Maple Leafs have gone 0-4-1 in their last five games and will look to snap out of their funk in spite of the latest blow by the injury bug with a win over the Blues on Tuesday night.
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