{"id":217388,"date":"2026-03-13T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217388\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:56:11","slug":"maple-leafs-star-auston-matthews-leaves-after-knee-on-knee-hit-from-ducks-radko-gudas-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217388\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews leaves after knee-on-knee hit from Ducks&#8217; Radko Gudas | Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews left Thursday night against Anaheim after a knee-on-knee hit from Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make a move around Gudas in the slot in the second period, Matthew stook a direct blow to his left leg and crashed to the ice. The U.S. Olympic captain stayed down before being helped to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, the bruising Czech defender whose hit ended Canadian captain Sidney Crosby\u2019s Olympics in the quarterfinals, was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews snapped a 12-game goal drought earlier in the period on a power play. The center has 27 goals and 26 assists in 60 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews left Thursday night against Anaheim after a knee-on-knee hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,99699,1489,32235,127],"class_list":["post-217388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-auston-matthews-injured-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-olympic-games","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}