The Maple Leafs superstar captain Auston Matthews was set to miss Tuesday night’s game against the Atlantic Division rival Boston Bruins with an upper-body injury.

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.

Auston Matthews will miss some time for the Toronto Maple Leafs as the team announced that he's out with a day-to-day upper-body injury.

In other words, the Maple Leafs need all hands on deck if they want to avoid being the latest victims of the Bruins' goaltending. That could be easier said than done, though, base

The Toronto Maple Leafs are trying something new — but it's not necessarily by choice, with Matthews out with an injury.

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

TORONTO -- Auston Matthews has an upper-body injury and will not play when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Boston Bruins at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET; TSN4, NESN). The forward and Maple Leafs captain is day to day. He has 11 points (five goals, six assists) in 13 games this season.

On a recent episode of the JD Bunkis Podcast, two-time Stanley Cup champion Kris Versteeg joined host JD Bunkis to discuss the impact of the Maple Leafs’ captaincy on Auston Matthews.