{"id":537117,"date":"2026-03-13T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:28:07","slug":"matthews-leaves-maple-leafs-win-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537117\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthews leaves Maple Leafs win with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — The slumping Toronto Maple Leafs finally won a game but lost Auston Matthews<\/a>\u00a0to a lower-body injury on Thursday.<\/p>\n

And they were angry about it, as much with themselves as they were with the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

Matthews, the Maple Leafs’ captain, crumpled to the ice when he tried to sidestep a hit in the slot from Ducks captain Radko Gudas<\/a>, who was assessed a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct at 15:47 of the second period in a game Toronto would go on to win 6-4<\/a> at Scotiabank Arena. The 28-year-old was helped off the ice by a trainer and teammate Brandon Carlo<\/a>, putting minimal weight on his left leg.<\/p>\n

Matthews will be reevaluated on Friday, coach Craig\u00a0Berube said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a dirty play,\u201d Berube said. \u201cThe League is obviously going to look at it and see what the suspension will be. Or whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much as the coach was perturbed by Gudas\u2019 actions, he was also irked by his team\u2019s lack of any in that moment. Toronto\u2019s remaining four skaters on the ice — forwards William Nylander<\/a>, rookie Easton Cowan<\/a>, and defensemen Morgan Rielly<\/a> and Carlo — did not offer any response toward\u00a0Gudas while their captain was writhing in pain on the ice, something that did not sit well with Berube.<\/p>\n

When asked if he had an explanation as to why his players did not immediately react in that situation, Berube replied: \u201cNo. Obviously, we should have four guys in there doing something about it, but it didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a heated topic between the coach and his players in Toronto’s dressing room during the second intermission, a number of Maple Leafs said. It sparked an emotional final 20 minutes of physical play in which Toronto outscored Anaheim 3-1 to snap an eight-game losing streak (0-6-2).<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we responded in the third. A good response there,\u201d Berube said. \u201cBut we all would have liked everyone to get in there right away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — The slumping Toronto Maple Leafs finally won a game but lost Auston Matthews\u00a0to a lower-body injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-537117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}