The Toronto Maple Leafs will play a massively important early-season contest against the Boston Bruins without their newly minted captain. It was announced by the Maple Leafs that superstar forward Auston Matthews would be out of the lineup on a day-to-day basis as he recovers from an upper-body injury.

Matthews will miss Tuesday’s game against the Bruins with an undisclosed injury that Craig Berube said had been lingering "a little bit."

If the Toronto Maple Leafs are to end their regular-season drought against the Boston Bruins, they will have to do so without their captain.