{"id":425892,"date":"2026-01-23T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:01:08","slug":"maple-leafs-craig-berube-shows-off-terrifying-cut-after-gym-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425892\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Craig Berube shows off terrifying cut after gym accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Berube had 241 fighting majors in his NHL career, but the massive wound he showed off Friday didn\u2019t come from dropping the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs head coach suffered a nasty cut requiring several stitches across his forehead and a black out in an accident while working out at a gym Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019ll address it, because you\u2019re gonna see it tonight. I had an accident in the gym yesterday,\u201d Berube said when asked by a reporter if he was \u201cOK\u201d following the morning skate ahead of Friday\u2019s game against the Golden Knights. \u201cThe other guy looks way worse. There was three of \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7716263;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38268941\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-23-at-3.26.16-PM.png\" alt=\"Craig Berube showed off a gnarly cut on his head after what he described a a gym accident.\" class=\"wp-image-38268941\"  \/>Craig Berube showed off a gnarly cut on his head after what he described a a gym accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s tough. It was stupid. It was just a bad accident, and it\u2019s on me. My fault, and yeah, I\u2019m fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he expects to be behind the bench against Vegas, the 60-year-old Berube nodded and replied, \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berube played 17 NHL seasons for five teams, including one with the Islanders in 2000-01, amassing 159 points and 3,149 penalty minutes over 1,054 games.<\/p>\n<p>The former enforcer in his second year coaching the Maple Leafs (76-43-13) after spending the previous six seasons with the Blues, leading them to a Stanley Cup title in 2019. The Alberta native was fired by St. Louis in Dec. 2023 following a 13-14-1 start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Berube had 241 fighting majors in his NHL career, but the massive wound he showed off Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[138687,385,99,1788],"class_list":["post-425892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-craig-berube","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425892","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=425892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}