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Game in 10: Matthews returns with a bang, Knies steals the show with a hat trick and five points in Maple Leafs’ thrilling win over Boston

Your game in 10:

1. So much went on in this game, particularly in the final 40 minutes, but the most important big-picture item was not just the return of Auston Matthews — and his three-point, plus-five game tonight — but the way he looked doing it.

Matthews was eased in with 17:32 of ice time, and it was actually pacing for around 15 minutes through much of the game before Craig Berube leaned on him more than he probably wanted to close out the game (some of it was that the Leafs saw less than 2.