The Toronto Maple Leafs are locked in a close 0-0 battle early against the Dallas Stars, and now, they've received some bad news. <h2>A key blue liner</h2> During the first period, defenseman Jake McCabe came from the ice, and it was reported that he headed to the locker room after just one shift. Jake McCabe took one shift of 10 seconds to start the game and hasn't played since for the Leafs. He just went to the dressing room in the TV timeout. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/jonassiegel/status/1717698352291131866?t=QKPmIdrpbymoqroOacjg-w&s=07&fbclid=IwAR3288uDq-O3MwGt_xFBE-7a6ioVbRkWoVYdH17R6zgWmDTyJQL3ylnOhzo'>https://twitter.com/jonassiegel/status/1717698352291131866?t=QKPmIdrpbymoqroOacjg-w&s=07&fbclid=IwAR3288uDq-O3MwGt_xFBE-7a6ioVbRkWoVYdH17R6zgWmDTyJQL3ylnOhzo</a></blockquote></div> With little depth on the blue line, the Leafs can't afford a major injury to McCabe or anyone defensively, so this could be a big loss for the contending Maple Leafs. Jake McCabe not on the #Leafs bench. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/dalter/status/1717698835818881362?t=FTEcVKEPswXfAnbPrRU4AQ&s=07&fbclid=IwAR3l9D-ndmz5p9krUsiC51WsQxxSuiY4D2ecIBwN3Ioys0xvGBNQh5WS_2g'>https://twitter.com/dalter/status/1717698835818881362?t=FTEcVKEPswXfAnbPrRU4AQ&s=07&fbclid=IwAR3l9D-ndmz5p9krUsiC51WsQxxSuiY4D2ecIBwN3Ioys0xvGBNQh5WS_2g</a></blockquote></div> Update : <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1717709132042502469?t=9RFPBBt_xzB-nMj0Fv4x9Q&s=19'>https://twitter.com/sunhornby/status/1717709132042502469?t=9RFPBBt_xzB-nMj0Fv4x9Q&s=19</a></blockquote></div> More details to come.