{"id":434733,"date":"2026-01-28T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434733\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:13:10","slug":"why-craig-berbue-has-huge-cut-on-head-coaching-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434733\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Craig Berbue has huge cut on head coaching Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Berube has a noticeably different look of late as he coaches the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a huge cut across the top of his head, a gash that&#8217;s hard not to notice.<\/p>\n<p>It has hockey fans talking, wondering what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Berube explained the scoop last week.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/edmonton-oilers\/news\/oilers-tristan-jarry-made-near-impossible-save-losing-skate-blade\/598881029a737c10399d5e68\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This save from Tristan Jarry makes no sense after he lost his skate blade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why does Craig Berube have a cut on his head?<\/p>\n<p>Berube himself has been added to the injury list after a mishap in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs leader revealed to reporters last Friday that he&#8217;s now got a big gash, stitched up, across much of the top of his head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had an accident in the gym yesterday,&#8221; Berube said. &#8220;The other guy looks way worse, there was three of them. It was tough. It was just a bad accident. It&#8217;s all my fault. I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berbue hasn&#8217;t missed any games coaching with the gash.<\/p>\n<p>They have lost both games he has coached since the cut, a 6-3 defeat to Vegas and a 4-1 loss to Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re back in action Tuesday night at home against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/buffalo-sabres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Berube has a noticeably different look of late as he coaches the Toronto Maple Leafs.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-434733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434733","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=434733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}