Let’s rewind the clock to October 13 of 2021 when the Toronto Maple Leafs were playing their season opener against the Montreal Canadiens. Leafs’ hockey was back, fans were back in the building, and the atmosphere was jubilant save for one major missing ingredient: Auston Matthews was not in the Toronto lineup. In August prior, Matthews’ camp and the Leafs‘ medical team decided to proceed with surgery on his left wrist that had been ailing him the season prior, causing him to miss training camp and the opening few games of the regular season.
A look back at Auston Matthews’ 2021-22 season: How the Leafs’ star captured his first Hart Trophy & Ted Lindsay Award
