{"id":243936,"date":"2026-03-30T21:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:30:14","slug":"ducks-captain-radko-gudas-to-play-vs-maple-leafs-despite-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243936\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks captain Radko Gudas to play vs. Maple Leafs despite injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"43493300-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/radko-gudas\/43493300-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Radko Gudas<\/a> will suit up on Monday night for the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in their rematch with the Maple Leafs (Sportsnet Ontario, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET) after ending Auston Matthews&#8217; season early.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas confirmed he&#8217;d be in the lineup to reporters following Monday morning&#8217;s skate, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2038669760574238897?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">telling reporters<\/a>, &#8220;I want to stand behind my own mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gudas&#8217; knee-on-knee hit on Matthews on March 12 resulted in a Grade 3 MCL tear for Toronto&#8217;s star that required surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, who is the Ducks&#8217; captain, was suspended for five games for the play, a ruling that raised eyebrows across the league.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran defenceman missed Anaheim&#8217;s game on Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers due to injury and was seen in a walking boot before the game, per Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whether you call it the code, or you call it the sportsman&#8217;s way of doing things, he recognizes that the Maple Leafs want a piece of him, and he wants to play,&#8221; Friedman said.<\/p>\n<p>In 54 games this season, the Czech has two goals, 11 assists and 45 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radko Gudas will suit up on Monday night for the Anaheim Ducks in their rematch with the Maple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-243936","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\/243936","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=243936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}