{"id":520380,"date":"2026-03-13T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:23:07","slug":"maple-leafs-auston-matthews-exits-after-knee-on-knee-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520380\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Auston Matthews exits after knee-on-knee hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 12, 2026, 09:09 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4024123\/auston-matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> left Thursday night against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/ana\/anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim<\/a> after a knee-on-knee hit from Ducks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5502\/radko-gudas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radko Gudas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make a move around Gudas in the slot in the second period of Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401803380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-4 victory<\/a>, Matthews took a direct blow to his left leg and crashed to the ice. The U.S. Olympic captain stayed down before being helped to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, the bruising Czech defender whose hit ended Canadian captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>&#8216;s Olympics in the quarterfinals, was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews snapped a 12-game goal drought earlier in the period on a power play. The center has 27 goals and 26 assists in 60 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026, 09:09 PM ET TORONTO &#8212; Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews left Thursday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-520380","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\/520380","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=520380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}