The Toronto Maple Leafs Dennis Gardeck Jersey have placed veteran defenseman Jake Muzzin on injured reserve, the team announced on Wednesday.Muzzin was injured in the second period with a neck injury and did not return in the Maple Leafs 4-2 lo s to the Arizona Coyotes on Monday.With Muzzin on injured reserve, the 33-year-old is unavailable to the Leafs for a minimum of seven days retroactive to his last appearance. The earliest hed be eligible to return is Oct. 27 against the San Jose Sharks."We had an event last night and in a lot of ways he looked like himself," Maple Josh Doctson Jersey Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said of Muzzin. "The veteran defenseman was checked out for a concu sion and Keefe responded by saying that head injury was ruled out.With the available roster spot, the Maple Leafs called up Filip Kral from the Marlies and hell likely serve as the teams seventh defenseman for the teams upcoming road trip.The 22-year-old Kral has never dre sed in an NHL. Earlier in the day, the Marlies signed Danny DeKeyser to a profe sional tryout.Victor Mete will slot in to make his Maple Leafs debut on Thursday when the team hosts the Dallas Stars.Scroll to ContinueInstant AnalysisThere was no update on Muzzin's status beyond today's game. But Mitch Marner's comments about his friend weren't rea suring."Obviously for him, it's just making sure that if he does come back and play this year, or whatever, just making sure he Jack Crawford Jersey 's going to do whatever he wants for the rest of his life and enjoy the time with his family and kids and whatever he wants to do," Marner said. "That's the most important thing. On the ice, it's Michael Dogbe Jersey a big mi sing piece."Muzzin had two concu sions last season and mi sed the start of training camp with back sorene s. Why no LTIR?The Maple Leafs have the option of placing Muzzin on long-term injured reserve (LTIR) down the road should they need to make use of the veteran's $5.625 million cap hit. But they already had a lot of space made available to them after goaltender Matt Murray was placed on LTIR with an adductor injury. Should Toronto need the space, they could always move Muzzin to LTIR to free up the space.Toronto is at the A.J. Green Jersey maximum allowable 50 contracts. If they wanted to make use of Muzzin's cap hit down the road, they'd have to move some contracts out before being able to add anyone new.