{"id":548736,"date":"2026-03-20T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:49:20","slug":"maple-leafs-captain-auston-matthews-undergoes-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548736\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews undergoes knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Maple Leafs say that captain Auston Matthews underwent successful knee surgery today in New York. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The NHL team says he\u2019s expected to need about 12 weeks of recovery time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee during a game against the Anaheim Ducks on March 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was hit by Ducks captain Radko Gudas, who received a five-game suspension by the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews recorded 53 points (27-26) this season for the Maple Leafs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto is 14th in the 16-team Eastern Conference standings with 70 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs say that captain Auston Matthews underwent successful knee surgery today in New York. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,82,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-548736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548736","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=548736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}