{"id":512221,"date":"2026-03-19T23:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/512221\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:14:25","slug":"maple-leafs-captain-auston-matthews-has-surgery-on-left-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/512221\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has surgery on left knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews had surgery Thursday in New York to repair the torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The team said he&#8217;s expected to need about 12 weeks of recovery time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Matthews was injured March 12 in a home victory over Anaheim on Radko Gudas&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/auston-matthews-injured-toronto-maple-leafs-a566ebcb4e4f23ca33472a76ce9563e3?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:knee-on-knee hit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;knee-on-knee hit&quot;}\" class=\"link \">knee-on-knee hit<\/a> that drew a major penalty, game misconduct and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/radko-gudas-suspension-matthews-919ef1b88367fe8b1f4a0a6c293886b8?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:five-game suspension;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;five-game suspension&quot;}\" class=\"link \">five-game suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The captain of the winning U.S. Olympic team, Matthews finished the season with 27 goals and 26 assists in 60 games. He\u2019s Toronto&#8217;s career leader with 428 goals.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews had surgery Thursday in New York to repair the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[532,5,34478,20,5172,35196,4,9464,142,66,31,5171],"class_list":["post-512221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-auston-matthews","tag-hockey","tag-major-penalty","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-medial-collateral-ligament","tag-nhl","tag-radko-gudas","tag-surgery","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116258384399302937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512221","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=512221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}