{"id":426259,"date":"2026-01-24T21:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426259\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:44:20","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-coach-craig-berube-shows-off-gruesome-head-injury-after-freak-gym-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426259\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube shows off gruesome head injury after freak &#8216;gym&#8217; accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-182\/daniel-matthews.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DANIEL MATTHEWS, US SENIOR SPORTS WRITER<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=_DanMatthews_&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  21:41 EST, 23 January 2026   |  Updated:  21:43 EST, 23 January 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube was left with a nasty gash on his head after suffering a mystery accident in the gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Berube arrived for his press conference on Friday sporting a black eye and the 60-year-old then took off his cap to reveal a long cut to the top of his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Maple Leafs coach refused to reveal exactly what caused the gruesome injury but said it would not stop him coaching Toronto against <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/las-vegas\/index.html\" id=\"mol-af96e730-f8ca-11f0-975b-83e178c523c7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Las Vegas<\/a>\u00a0on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;ll address it, because you\u2019re gonna see it tonight. I had an accident in the gym yesterday,&#8217; he said, showing off the stitches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The other guy looks way worse&#8230; there was three of them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Berube added: &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to talk about it. Nobody needs to know. It&#8217;s all good&#8230; it was just a bad accident. It&#8217;s on me. My fault. I&#8217;m fine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-77ee2e9f6310de41\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105788829-15492867-image-a-1_1769222267784.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The injury did not stop Craig Berube from coaching his team against the Golden Knights\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The injury did not stop Craig Berube from coaching his team against the Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Maple Leafs were looking to end a skid of four losses in five games when they took on the Golden Knights at home on Friday night. But Toronto fell to a 6-3 loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 60-year-old has been in charge of the Maple Leafs since\u00a0May 2024. He previously coached the Philadelphia Flyers and St Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Alberta native spent 17 seasons in the NHL as a player, enjoying stints with Philadelphia, Toronto, Calgary, Washington and the New York Islanders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Across 1,054 regular season NHL games, Berube amassed 159 points (61 goals, 98 assists) and 3,149 penalty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube shows off gruesome head injury after freak &#8216;gym&#8217; accident<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By DANIEL MATTHEWS, US SENIOR SPORTS WRITER Published: 21:41 EST, 23 January 2026 | Updated: 21:43 EST, 23&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[3896,5,4,208],"class_list":["post-426259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-dailymail","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115952266726771620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}