{"id":220205,"date":"2026-03-15T01:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220205\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:41:34","slug":"ducks-gudas-to-have-hearing-for-knee-on-knee-hit-on-matthews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220205\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks&#8217; Gudas to have hearing for knee-on-knee hit on Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radko Gudas\u00a0will have to answer for his knee on\u00a0Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Anaheim Ducks\u00a0captain will have a hearing over the phone, the NHL Department of Player Safety\u00a0announced\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anaheim\u2019s Radko Gudas will have a hearing today for kneeing Toronto\u2019s Auston Matthews.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPlayerSafety\/status\/2032452830196388122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result of it being a telephone hearing, Gudas cannot be suspended for more than five games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/03\/12\/maple-leafs-ducks-matthews-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The incident occurred in the Maple Leafs\u2019 6-4 win over the Ducks<\/a>. In the second period, Gudas stuck his knee out on Matthews in front of the net, catching the Maple Leafs captain\u2019s knee and sending him to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews stayed down on the ice in obvious pain after the hit and was helped off by training staff. He would not return for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas was handed a five-minute major on the play and a game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has been suspended four times over his NHL career, for a total of 21 games. His longest was a 10-game ban in 2017 for a slash to the neck.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radko Gudas\u00a0will have to answer for his knee on\u00a0Auston Matthews. The\u00a0Anaheim Ducks\u00a0captain will have a hearing over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-220205","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\/220205","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=220205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}