Ducks F Cutter Gauthier leaves with upper-body injury

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Anaheim forward Cutter Gauthier left the Ducks' Monday game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first period after sustaining an upper-body injury.

Gauthier appeared to take a cross-check to the back from Maple Leafs defenseman Jake McCabe halfway through the opening frame.

The incident occurred on the same shift on which Gauthier, the team's leader in g