{"id":311780,"date":"2025-11-25T00:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311780\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:28:06","slug":"nhl-status-report-matthews-could-return-for-maple-leafs-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/311780\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Matthews could return for Maple Leafs on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Maple Leafs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/auston-matthews-8479318\" title=\"Auston Matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/matthew-knies-8482720\" title=\"Matthew Knies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Knies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-roy-8478462\" title=\"Nicolas Roy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Roy<\/a> each skated Monday and could return against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET; FDSNOH, SNP, SNO, SNE, SN360). Matthews, the Maple Leafs captain, has missed their past five games because of a lower-body injury. Knies (lower body) and Roy (upper body) have missed the past three. \u2026 \u201cI\u2019d say (they\u2019re) close,\u201d Toronto coach Craig Berube said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ll probably know (Tuesday) if they\u2019re available for Wednesday.\u201d \u2026 Berube said defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-mccabe-8476931\" title=\"Jake McCabe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake McCabe<\/a>, who left a 5-2 loss at the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday with an upper-body injury, should be able to play Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews, Matthew Knies and Nicolas Roy each skated Monday and could return against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-311780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}