"[Matthews] is all you [media] talk about or ask me about every day. The team's playing tonight and we plan on winning. I think that's what's really important. I've coached in the League a long time, we've had players injured every single year and that's the way it is. Do you want to have all hands on deck? Absolutely but we don't and that's where you find more players. Someone else gets more ice time, someone else gets an opportunity and if they do something with the opportunity, they never come out of the lineup." -- Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock on missing Auston Matthews
"You probably don't notice it early on. It'll be noticeable if he has an extended period of time out. I mean, like any great player, the team's get back the first week or two because they play above what they're capable of because they know great players are out. If it lasts three, four, five weeks, then all of a sudden, they're in the same boat as a lot of other teams that have lost their No. 1 goalie. It becomes problematic." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on missing Dubnyk