While McAvoy was dealing with a family matter, Mittelstadt has a lower-body injury. Both players stayed behind in Boston.

McAvoy is back in Boston due to a family matter, and he will miss at least one game. He has accounted for 12 assists, 21 shots on goal, 26 blocked shots, 24 hits and 24 PIM across 16 appearances this season. With McAvoy unavailable, Mason Lohrei will draw back into the lineup after being a healthy scratch for the last five games.

The Bruins will be facing their divisional rival Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena with a seriously depleted lineup.

According to The Athletic, Charlie McAvoy didn’t make the one-game road trip for personal reasons, while Casey Mittelstadt will be scratched for an upper-body injury. The Bruins were already without Elias Lindholm, who was placed on injured reserve Saturday, and Johnny Beecher, who left Thursday’s game with an injury.

The latter was an issue for Lohrei’s first 11 games. There would not be a 12th until Saturday, when Lohrei returned to the lineup. Charlie McAvoy, his former top-pair partner, did not travel with the Bruins to Toronto because of a personal matter.

The Leafs still had life when Hampus Lindholm was called for holding with 2:05 left in the third but the B’s, who held a 39-33 shot advantage and were ale to keep Auston Matthews and Matthew Knies off the scoresheet, were able to hold off the Leafs and record the hard-earned win.

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Tagged for 22 shots, Korpisalo stopped 20 shots in the win, and had some absolutely dynamite saves in the third period and overtime. One of his better saves in what was a nine-save third period came with the Bruins down a guy, with a pair of in-tight stops on Ottawa's Shane Pinto.

For the second straight game, the Senators had to work a little overtime and again there was no payoff. Ottawa fell 3-2 in overtime to the Boston Bruins at TD Garden on Thursday night. Pavel Zacha buried the game winner after a soft, bad angle shot from Charlie McAvoy trickled through Linus Ullmark.