{"id":217423,"date":"2026-03-13T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217423\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:20:09","slug":"radko-gudas-at-it-again-injures-auston-matthews-with-reckless-hit-less-than-a-month-after-injuring-sidney-crosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217423\/","title":{"rendered":"Radko Gudas at it again: injures Auston Matthews with reckless hit less than a month after injuring Sidney Crosby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/radko-gudas-hit-auston-matthews.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"Radko Gudas\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScreenshot: Anaheim Ducks \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Less than one month after injuring Penguins star <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Sidney Crosby&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/sidney-crosby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> at the Olympics, Anaheim Ducks defender <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Radko Gudas&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/radko-gudas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radko Gudas<\/a> has done the same to Leafs star <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Auston Matthews&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/auston-matthews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a>. Late in the second period of Thursday\u2019s game in Toronto, Gudas kneed Matthews in front of Anaheim\u2019s net.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas was given a five-minute major penalty for kneeing and was ejected. Matthews left the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs later announced that Matthews would not return due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maple Leafs F Auston Matthews will not return to tonight\u2019s game (lower body).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/2032258896497136090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the Milan Cortino Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/02\/18\/sidney-crosby-leaves-canada-czechia-game-lower-body-injury-undergo-imaging-severity-penguins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gudas inflicted a similar injury on Crosby<\/a>. In the quarterfinal game between Czechia and Canada, Gudas collided with and then fell on top of the three-time Cup winner. Crosby missed the gold-medal game and has not suited up for the Penguins since, though he is expected to return soon.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, 35, has two goals, 11 assists, and 45 penalty minutes this season. His blue line got shored up last week with the addition of Washington Capitals legend <a class=\"player\" title=\"View John Carlson&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/john-carlson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a>, who was traded for picks at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes before the injury, Matthews had just broken a 12-game goalless streak with a one-timer on the power play.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas\u2019 Ducks currently lead the Pacific Division. The Leafs are in last place in the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: Anaheim Ducks Less than one month after injuring Penguins star Sidney Crosby at the Olympics, Anaheim Ducks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-217423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217423","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=217423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}