After dropping Wednesday's home tilt 5-1 to the Columbus Blue Jackets, Auston Matthews channeled his frustrations towards the energy in the building — or lack thereof. Leafs enforcer Ryan Reaves dropped the gloves for the first time this season less than two minutes into the opening period,

The Toronto Maple Leafs are hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight and things got wild in the first period. During a shift in the offensive zone, Leafs captain Auston Matthews lost his stick near the Blue Jackets net.

Reaves dropped the gloves with Olivier less than two minutes into the first period of the Leafs' loss Wednesday.

Fantilli's 'hattie' near his hometown led the Blue Jackets to victory over the Maple Leafs and cost his mom her hat: 4 takeaways.

Leafs captain Auston Matthews isn't exactly happy with what he's hearing — or rather, not hearing — from the fans at Scotiabank Arena.

Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews wasn't particularly happy with what he thought was the lack of excitement from the fans.

Toronto Maple Leafs and Columbus Blue Jackets are both top four in offence since mid-December and have six or more goals in ten of their last 13 matchups

The netminder was handed two minutes for holding Matthews’ stick (served by Blue Jackets forward Dmitri Voronkov). Matthews, meanwhile, served two minutes for Illegal Equipment at the 6:26 mark of the opening period. After the game, Matthews commented on the incident claiming he was unaware of the ruling of the infraction.

If no extension is reached by the trade deadline on March 7, the Blue Jackets would likely be in the market to receive a first-round pick offer for Provorov. He is listed as TSN's No. 21 trade-bait player, which is the sixth-overall defenseman and second-overall left-side defenseman.

Matthew Knies was injured in the second period of Toronto's game yesterday against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Knies struggled to get up from the ice after colliding with Blue Jackets forward Kirill Marchenko and did not return to the game. Knies was ruled out with what the Toronto Maple Leafs called an "upper-body injury".

The Toronto Maple Leafs faced a tough night on multiple fronts, suffering a 5-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday and seeing key forward Matthew Knies exit the game with an upper-body injury. The injury occurred late in the second period when Knies delivered a hit on Blue Jackets forward Kirill Marchenko but got the worst of it.