{"id":533740,"date":"2026-03-13T13:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:11:14","slug":"maple-leafs-matthews-exits-after-gudas-ejected-for-knee-on-knee-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/533740\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs\u2019 Matthews exits after Gudas ejected for knee-on-knee hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/auston-matthews\/0408afd7-1600-4a36-8ec7-685120334ce1\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"0408afd7-1600-4a36-8ec7-685120334ce1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Auston Matthews<\/a> left Thursday&#8217;s game against the Anaheim Ducks after colliding knee-on-knee with Radko Gudas in the second period. <\/p>\n<p>Matthews stayed down on the ice in obvious pain after the hit before he was helped off the ice by training staff. <\/p>\n<p>After the game, head coach Craig Berube said Matthews will be evaluated further on Friday. He referred to it as a &#8220;dirty&#8221; hit.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas received a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for kneeing. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his exit, Matthews had 13:18 in playing time with one goal \u2014 breaking his 12-game goalless drought \u2014\u00a0and two shots. <\/p>\n<p>For the season, the 28-year-old Matthews has 27 goals and 53 points.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, captain of the Ducks, has been suspended four times in his NHL career, with the last coming in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>He also was responsible for the hit that injured Canada captain Sidney Crosby at the Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Auston Matthews left Thursday&#8217;s game against the Anaheim Ducks after colliding knee-on-knee with Radko Gudas in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-533740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}