TORONTO – The scuffling Maple Leafs will look to get back on track minus two key pieces.

Toronto head coach Craig Berube announced ahead of Thursday’s home game against the Los Angeles Kings that star centre Auston Matthews will be out of the lineup “maybe a week, maybe sooner” with a lower-body injury.

No. 1 goaltender Anthony Stolarz, meanwhile, is out day-to-day with an upper-body issue.

Matthews left Tuesday’s 5-4 road loss to the Boston Bruins in the second period. The Leafs captain took a hit from behind from Nikita Zadorov and then went back at the hulking defenceman moments later in what would be his final shift of the night, but Berube said the injury occurred earlier in the game.

Stolarz, meanwhile, exited after the opening 20 minutes. Third-string netminder Dennis Hildeby wi

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