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Sheldon Keefe on Auston Matthews’ injury-recovery progress: “He did a lot more today than we were expecting him to”

Was it a good step in Auston Matthews’ progress today?

Keefe: A really good step. He did a lot more today than we were expecting him to, frankly. He wanted to keep going. He felt good. He shot the puck a lot harder today. It was the first time I saw him really leaning into one-timers and such. It was very clear he was feeling good.

As I said, he chose to continue going through drills and going through some contact stuff, which we didn’t expect him to do today and he wanted to.