Auston Matthews in Distress After Taking a Skate to the Groin

First, Matthews was hurt on Thursday in Florida when an attempted dump in from Carter Verhaeghe caught him in the ‘'nether regions'', for lack of a better term.

And tonight, with Toronto visiting the Hurricanes, Matthews took a Jesper Fast skate directly to the groin off a faceoff. Check it out:

Matthews immediately went down and stayed on the ice for a moment, but he did stay in the game.