Injured Bunting skating but will miss Maple Leafs' final 2 games before playoffs

Forward Michael Bunting will sit out the Toronto Maple Leafs' final two games of the regular season before having his lower-body injury re-evaluated prior to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Bunting, 26, sustained the injury in Toronto's 3-2 overtime loss to the Florida Panthers on Saturday. He did not play in the Maple Leafs' 4-3 shootout win against the Washington Capitals on Sunday.

"He obviously skated today so a very positive sign," Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe said Tuesday. "He's not going to play this week and then we will re-evaluate him from there, but things are looking positive."

Bunting has recorded 23 goals and 63 points in 79 games this season.

He has 34 goals and 77 points in 105 NHL regular-season games with the Arizona Coyotes and Maple Leafs. He was drafted in the fourth round by the then-Phoenix Coyotes in 2014.

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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price is scheduled to have a medical evaluation on his surgically repaired knee after just four games back from the injury.

Price, 34, missed practice Tuesday and originally wasn't going to travel with the team to New York for Wednesday night's game against the Rangers. The team, however, announced he will travel to New York to see a specialist.

Price had knee surgery on July 23, about two weeks after the Canadiens lost the decisive Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

He returned to action on April 15 and is 0-4-0 with a 4.04 goals-against average and .853 save percentage.

Before the start of the 2021-22 season, Price voluntarily entered the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program to address his mental health. He said in a statement in November he'd let himself "get to a very