{"id":501552,"date":"2026-03-13T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/501552\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:01:50","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-star-auston-matthews-to-have-mri-friday-after-taking-knee-from-radko-gudas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/501552\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews to have MRI Friday after taking knee from Radko Gudas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/auston-matthews\/8479318\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/auston-matthews\/8479318\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> will undergo an MRI on Friday afternoon to determine the extent of his injury, TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews left Thursday night\u2019s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> taking a hit to the left knee from defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/radko-gudas\/8475462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/radko-gudas\/8475462\" target=\"_blank\">Radko Gudas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s a dirty play,\u201d said coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Berube<\/a>. \u201cThe league is obviously going to look at it and see what the suspension will be, or whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gudas received a major penalty and game misconduct. He will have a hearing with the league\u2019s department of player safety on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews scored his 27th goal of the season before exiting on Thursday, ending a 12-game goal drought in the process. He has 53 points in 60 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old centre won gold as captain of Team USA at the Olympics in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs will visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Saturday night. Toronto remains 11 points back of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/boston-bruins\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. With 16 games remaining in the season, the Maple Leafs are on track to miss the playoffs and see their active-record streak of nine straight postseason appearances end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews will undergo an MRI on Friday afternoon to determine the extent of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[4759,33999,5,20,5172,4,66,31,32467,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-501552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-auston-matthews-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479318","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-maple-leafs","12":"tag-mapleleafs","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","16":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10","17":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116222947851389314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501552","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=501552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}