Mattaa (upper body) was feeling ill Wednesday morning and will undergo a precautionary test for the mumps.

Maatta (upper body) was feeling ill Wednesday morning and will undergo a precautionary test for the mumps.

Analysis:

Given that the virus has already claimed Sidney Crosby and Beau Bennett, the team is taking no chances with Maatta, Robert Bortuzzo and Marc-Andre Fleury, all of whom were under the weather and absent from Wednesday's practice. Maatta's situation would probably be affected the least of those three players if he were diagnosed with the mumps, as he's expected to miss multiple weeks anyway after he was placed on injured reserve over the weekend with an upper-body injury.