{"id":534858,"date":"2026-03-14T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:06:08","slug":"auston-matthews-injury-revealed-and-toronto-maple-leafs-can-kiss-the-playoffs-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534858\/","title":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews&#8217; injury revealed and Toronto Maple Leafs can kiss the playoffs goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auston Matthews&#8217; season is over, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/2032598575428022668\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Toronto Maple Leafs confirmed Friday evening<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs\u00a0captain was injured Thursday after a controversial hit by\u00a0Anaheim Ducks defenceman Radko Gudas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthews sustained a Grade 3 MCL tear and quad contusion, the Leafs said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matthews will be re-evaluated in approximately two weeks. A further update will be provided at that time,&#8221; the Leafs said. &#8220;He will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube called the Gudas hit\u00a0a &#8220;dirty play&#8221; and made it clear post-game that he wasn&#8217;t happy his players didn&#8217;t go after the Ducks defender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should have had four guys in there doing something about it,&#8221; Berube said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Radko Gudas received a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for kneeing Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews has since left the game \ud83e\udd15 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E8lc8MjvJh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/E8lc8MjvJh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Gino Hard (@GinoHard_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GinoHard_\/status\/2032253684092977640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is likely the nail in the coffin when it comes to Toronto&#8217;s already-dwindling playoff hopes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs were a long shot already, as they entered Friday 11 points back of the Boston Bruins for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Toronto hasn&#8217;t missed the playoffs since drafting Matthews in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was a frustrating season for Matthews, whose\u00a0season ends with a career-low 53 points in 60 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Lead photo by <\/p>\n<p>Dan Hamilton\/Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews&#8217; season is over, the Toronto Maple Leafs confirmed Friday evening.\u00a0 The Maple Leafs\u00a0captain was injured Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,8461,33821,3302],"class_list":["post-534858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-leafs","tag-maple","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534858","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=534858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}