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He was on the ice for Saturday's morning skate in the starters' net. He briefly stayed down on two sequences after moving to his left, but finished the session. Ilya Samsonov, who started the best-of-seven matchup before getting pulled in Game 4, was back between the pipes for Toronto. Toronto winger Mitch Marner said Matthews, who arrived at the rink Saturday morning sporting a Star Wars T-shirt, has been handling the absence as expected.
The workhorse forward skated Wednesday at the team's practice facility in Toronto and again Thursday for about 30 minutes before Game 6. The Leafs also dealt with the absence of winger William Nylander for the first three contests of the series. The three-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner as the NHL's top goal-scorer, Matthews had a monster three-point Game 2 to help Toronto even the series with the Bruins, but didn't look like himself two nights later in a 4-2 loss as he battled the illness that would eventually force him from Game 4.
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