The Toronto Maple Leafs are placing captain Auston Matthews on the injured reserve list with an upper-body injury.

The Toronto Maple Leafs announced Tuesday they placed forward Auston Matthews on Injured Reserve (IR), retroactive to Dec. 20. In a corresponding move, the team recalled defenseman Marshall Rifai from their AHL affiliate,

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The Toronto Maple Leafs have placed Auston Matthews on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 20, where he aggravated an upper-body injury which forced him to miss most of November.

TORONTO -- Auston Matthews will miss his fourth straight game because of an upper-body injury for the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Washington Capitals at Scotiabank Arena on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; CBC, SNE, SNO, SNP, NHLN, MNMT2).

David Kampf, Steven Lorentz and John Tavares scored as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New York Islanders 3-1 on Tuesday to move into a tie with idle Florida for the top spot in the Atlantic Division.

The Toronto Maple Leafs announced they have recalled defenseman Marshall Rifai and placed captain Auston Matthews on injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 20. Rifai has two goals and four points in 22 games for the Marlies this season, he played in two games for the Maple Leaf last season and averaged 11:40 of ice time.

Upper-body injury bothers Auston Matthews once again, and the Maple Leafs superstar will miss the next two games.