Update (5:10 p.m. EST): William Nylander is out tonight for precautionary reasons related to possible Covid exposure. The game will go ahead as planned.
For precautionary reasons, William Nylander will not play tonight vs Montreal as he has had exposure to a possible positive case with a close contact outside the team.
Nylander is isolating and the situation will be re-evaluated tomorrow pending the results of further testing.— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) April 7, 2021
Early word is the incubation period from when William Nylander had a possible COVID-19 exposure to when he skated with #leafs teammates this morning isn't believed to have been long enough for him to be considered contagious.