{"id":534209,"date":"2026-03-13T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:15:10","slug":"ducks-defenceman-gudas-to-have-hearing-for-knee-on-knee-hit-to-leafs-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534209\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks defenceman Gudas to have hearing for knee-on-knee hit to Leafs&#8217; Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 Anaheim Ducks defenceman Radko Gudas is scheduled to have a hearing with the NHL\u2019s department of player safety on Friday for his hit that injured Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The knee-on-knee hit occurred at 15:47 of the second period of the Ducks\u2019 6-4 loss Thursday night in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gudas received a major penalty and game misconduct on the play, which resulted in Matthews exiting the game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old has had previous run-ins with the department of player safety. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gudas received a 10-game suspension for a slash across the neck of Winnipeg Jets forward Mathieu Perreault during the 2017-18 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019s also been banned for interference, an illegal check to the head and slashing since entering the league in 2012-13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Anaheim Ducks defenceman Radko Gudas is scheduled to have a hearing with the NHL\u2019s department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-534209","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\/534209","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=534209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}