Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving details Matthews, Woll and others' injuries in Boston playoff series

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The playoffs may be over, but the Maple Leafs still are filling up sick bay.

General manager Brad Treliving detailed a series of injuries to key players at the end of the regular season and through the seven-game elimination by Boston at Friday morning’s season-ending media availability. 

Of most interest to the masses would be that Auston Matthews was held out of the last couple of games in part because of fears of a concussion, related to a Game 4 hit that was causing him head issues.

That was in addition to an illness that came on the top scorer after Game 2 that the team first thought could be food poisoning.

Treliving, as Matthews indicated himself earlier in the week, called it a virus. Matthews wasn’t cleared until the afternoon of Game 7. 

Winger Bobby McMann suffered an MCL sprain against Detroit on April 13 and was trending towards recovery had the Leafs made the second round.

Goaltender Joseph Woll suffered a back sprain in that goalmouth scramble of Game 6, but should be fine. 

The longest-healing injury is that of winger Connor Dewar, who apparently played through a shoulder injury and was to undergo surgery sometime Friday. Treliving said he would be ready for training camp.

Treliving also confirmed William Nylander’s comments that severe migraines flared up after the regular season to the stage where the 98-point winger went through concussion protocol. 

Treliving, team president Brendan Shanahan and new MLSE head honcho Keith Pelley were addressing the media after last week’s season-ending Game 7 loss. Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe was fired on Thursday.

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