{"id":227670,"date":"2026-03-20T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227670\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:08:09","slug":"maple-leafs-captain-auston-matthews-has-surgery-on-left-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227670\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has surgery on left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews had surgery Thursday in New York to repair the torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The team said he&#8217;s expected to need about 12 weeks of recovery time.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was injured March 12 in a home victory over Anaheim on Radko Gudas&#8217; knee-on-knee hit that drew a major penalty, game misconduct and five-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The captain of the winning U.S. Olympic team, Matthews finished the season with 27 goals and 26 assists in 60 games. He\u2019s Toronto&#8217;s career leader with 428 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews had surgery Thursday in New York to repair the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,85311,103556,5341,5337,103557,5340,103558,5429],"class_list":["post-227670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-auston-matthews","tag-auston-matthews-toronto-maple-leafs-surgery","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-radko-gudas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227670","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=227670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}