Matthews rejects it to be too detailed: “Looking many different things”

The captain of Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews, rejected the club's lockers on Tuesday to reveal the type of injury with which he was treated throughout the campaign.

“It was definitely physically hard,” said Matthews per TSN. “Very difficult season. I don't have to go into the details of things, but I was injured in the training camp. Obviously I didn't feel good in the first month of the season.

When asked whether the injury had an effect on his ability to shoot the puck, Matthews replied: “I think she has certainly had many different things.”

Matthews' production went back this season and fell from 69 goals and 369 shots 2023-24 to 33 goals and 261 shots in 2024-25. He was also limited to 67 games and traveled to Germany to seek treatment for the injury.

The 27-year-old added on Tuesday that he does not have to be operated on and is confident that he will be 100% healthy at the beginning of the next campaign.

Matthews won additional break in the playoffs by sitting selected practices. He had three goals and 11 points in 13 post -season games before the Florida Panthers eliminated the Maple Leafs in game 7 of the second round.

Toronto had a 2-0 lead in front of the defending champion, but lost four out of five games on the rest of the path to bow with a whimper. Florida dominated game 7 with a 6-1 win and gave Matthews and the Leafs their seventh defeat in a row.

“This gaps the most,” said Matthews, according to Luke Fox from Sportsnet.