{"id":244369,"date":"2026-03-31T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:46:09","slug":"maple-leafs-domi-fights-ducks-gudas-three-seconds-into-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244369\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Domi fights Ducks&#8217; Gudas three seconds into game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first meeting between the teams since Gudas injured Leafs captain Auston Matthews with a knee-on-knee hit on March 12, Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/max-domi\/c140dfc0-9bf3-42b3-ac83-1b489e6be04f\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c140dfc0-9bf3-42b3-ac83-1b489e6be04f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Domi<\/a> dropped the gloves to fight Gudas immediately after the opening faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>Domi and Gudas both were handed fighting majors three seconds into the game. Department of Player Safety head George Parros was in attendance at the game to keep a close eye on proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas decided to play Monday after he suffered a lower-body injury last Thursday in Calgary, was spotted wearing a walking boot post-game, and missed Saturday\u2019s critical divisional match in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStand behind my own mistakes,\u201d Gudas said at Honda Center Monday morning. \u201cI want to address it myself.\u00a0That\u2019s one of those games where I have to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs were heavily criticized for not going after Gudas in the immediate aftermath of Matthews&#8217; injury.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas was suspended five games for the play.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas&#8217; knee-on-knee hit resulted in a Grade 3 MCL tear for Matthews that required surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the first meeting between the teams since Gudas injured Leafs captain Auston Matthews with a knee-on-knee hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-244369","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\/244369","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=244369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}