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Craig Berube Breaks Silence on Matthew Knies' Injury After Game 6 Scare

Originally posted on Blade of Steel | By Jack Sutherland | Last updated May 17, 2025 11:52 AM ET

Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube is breaking his silence on the injury suffered by forward Matthews Knies in Friday night's Game 6 win over the Panthers.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have themselves a date with destiny - Sunday night, to be exact.

They managed to keep the hope of a trip to the Eastern Conference Final for the 1st time since 2002 alive with their 2-0 win on Friday night over the Florida Panthers, trying the series at 3-3.

During the game, forward Matthew Knies appeared to get hurt after taking a reverse hit from Florida's Niko Mikkola behind the net; he was clearly laboring for the rest of the game.

Head coach Craig Berube had a cloudy update on his condition, saying that there wasn't anything specific he could offer in terms of a diagnosis or even his availability for Game 7 on Sunday.

I wouldn't know (the answer) to that question right now. He's dealing with something here that happened. And we've got to look at him and see how he's feeling tomorrow.

As far as managing the injury with his ice time in Game 6, Berube said he took it on constant conversations with him on the bench.

It was just based on conversations with him. I used him in situational play, more than anything, down the stretch there. If he was good to go or if he wasn't good to go, it was more a sense of me talking to him on the bench and understanding where he was at, at the time.