The Toronto Maple Leafs may have lost a key piece of their blue line.
Jake McCabe was ruled out Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers after suffering an apparent head injury, the team announced.
McCabe was slow to get up after his head crashed to the ice at the conclusion of a fight with Flyers heavyweight Garnet Hathaway.
The tilt was a response to Hathaway crashing into Leafs goalie Dennis Hildeby just seconds earlier.
Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube said after the game that he did not have an update on McCabe besides the team's initial announcement of an "upper-body injury."
McCabe previously missed five games this season after he was hit on the side of the head by an errant shot.
The 31-year-old has one goal and 10 assists across 35 contests this season as he's played on a shutdown pairing alongside Chris Tanev.
Toronto returns to the ice Tuesday for the back half of a home-and-home set against the Flyers in Philadelphia.
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