{"id":235052,"date":"2026-03-25T01:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235052\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T01:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:48:09","slug":"nhls-radko-gudas-talks-suspension-for-hit-that-caused-auston-matthews-injury-ive-got-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235052\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL’s Radko Gudas Talks Suspension for Hit That Caused Auston Matthews’ Injury, ‘I’ve Got to Learn’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anaheim Ducks captain Radko Gudas discussed the five-game suspension that he received for a knee-to-knee collision with Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews. <\/p>\n

“I really hate the way it ended up, the point of contact,” Gudas said Tuesday, per Eric Stephens<\/a> of The Athletic. “I’m not a fan of that. I never want to injure anybody out there. It’s a hard-fought game. It’s just, yeah, I never want to go out there and hurt anybody. I feel terrible about the outcome. I just committed to the play, and unfortunately that was the point of contact.”<\/p>\n

Matthews sustained a\u00a0Grade 3 MCL tear and quad contusion<\/a>\u00a0during the collision with Gudas, which occurred during Toronto’s 6-4 win over Anaheim on March 12.<\/p>\n

Gudas revealed that he reached out to Matthews following the incident. <\/p>\n

“I’ve got to learn,” Gudas said, via Stephens. “I’ve got to be better as a hockey player. I never want to go out there and hurt anybody. It’s very unfortunate. I reached out to him, too. We spoke. I never want to see anybody get hurt, so I feel very terrible about that.”<\/p>\n

Matthews underwent MCL knee repair surgery on Thursday, with the Maple Leafs announcing that he faces a recovery timeline of approximately 12 weeks. <\/p>\n

As for Gudas, he’s racked up two goals and 11 assists across 52 appearances with the Ducks this season.<\/p>\n

He’ll make his return from the suspension on Tuesday night, as Anaheim travels to face the Vancouver Canucks at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks captain Radko Gudas discussed the five-game suspension that he received for a knee-to-knee collision with Toronto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-235052","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\/235052","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=235052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}