Craig Berube on Nikita Zadorov knocking Auston Matthews out of the game: "I don't like the hit, and I think it was a penalty... He was in a vulnerable position"

"I think it is a penalty, personally, but I am not the referee. I don't like it. I don't like the hit. He was in a vulnerable position. There is nothing I can do about it."

"We'll see tomorrow. Right now, it is lower-body. We will just see tomorrow how he is. I don't know exactly. I really can't give you guys a timeline or tell you how serious it is right now. I am not sure when he hurt, to be honest with you."

"Well, we took three penalties in the first period and got behind the eight ball. In the second and third, we competed hard and battled hard. We stuck up for each other and did a lot of good things. We needed some kills tonight. We didn't get them."

The Maple Leafs lost 5-3 to the Boston Bruins, dropping to 8-8-1. Auston Matthews left after a hit from Nikita Zadorov that Craig Berube called a penalty and described as a hit on a vulnerable player. Matthews went to the dressing room and was described as having a lower-body issue with status to be evaluated the next day. Berube said the team competed harder in the second and third periods, were more aggressive and physical in defending, but were hampered by early penalties, poor reads on a couple plays, and weak penalty killing.

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