{"id":222679,"date":"2026-03-16T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222679\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:48:07","slug":"tkachuk-bros-weigh-in-on-matthews-gudas-incident-id-be-pissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222679\/","title":{"rendered":"Tkachuk bros. weigh in on Matthews-Gudas incident: ‘I’d be pissed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking on their podcast, Wingmen<\/a>, Brady Tkachuk<\/a> said, “I’d be pissed” if he were lying on the ice hurt and none of his teammates went after the player who hit him.<\/p>\n

Added Matthew Tkachuk<\/a>: “Me and Brady would not have lasted that game if we were on the Leafs.”<\/p>\n

The incident in question happened last Thursday when Ducks captain Radko Gudas<\/a> clipped Matthews with a knee-on-knee hit. Matthews has since been ruled out for the season with an MCL injury, while Gudas was given a game misconduct and later a five-game suspension for the hit.<\/p>\n

Two debates have dominated hockey circles in the days since: the Maple Leafs players’ lack of response on the ice in the immediate aftermath of the hit and the relatively light suspension handed to Gudas, who has been suspended previously.<\/p>\n

It’s that first point that the Tkachuk brothers zeroed in on during the latest episode of their podcast.<\/p>\n

After first clarifying that not all clean hits need a response, Matthew Tkachuk said if a hit injures a teammate “that’s where guys on Toronto need to be like, this isn’t going to fly and we’re not going to wait until next game.”<\/p>\n

“Screw the point,” he continued, in reference to the standings. “Like it’s more important in a game like that to stick up for a guy than to actually win, especially when you’re that far out of playoffs.”<\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk agreed with his brother.<\/p>\n

“It’s more important… to show everyone that nobody gets taken advantage of on our team,” he added. “We’re arm (in) arm, like, we’re together every\u00a0step of the way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on their podcast, Wingmen, Brady Tkachuk said, “I’d be pissed” if he were lying on the ice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-222679","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\/222679","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=222679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}