Maple Leafs are making an obvious Matthew Knies mistake
Toronto has no reason to be doing this.
Maple Leafs are making an obvious Matthew Knies mistake originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Matthew Knies is playing through an injury.
The Toronto Maple Leafs ' talented forward has admitted it publicly, and it raises an obvious question: Why? The Leafs have nothing left to play for this season in a positive sense. The best thing that can happen is they earn a top-five draft pick and keep their first-rounder, which goes to the Boston Bruins if it finishes outside the top-five.
MORE: Penguins' best trade of the season is one they didn't make Knies also was involved in trade rumors before the deadline. If he's eventually going to get moved, you'd want him healthy, wouldn't you? For what it's worth, this is what Knies has said about his injury: “It’s kind of an injury that I don’t think could get much worse.
So I don’t think that there’s any risk for me playing. It’s obviously not comfortable playing through it, but if it’s not going to get worse, then there’s no problem with me playing. Then I’m going to play.