{"id":531377,"date":"2026-03-30T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:48:13","slug":"ducks-captain-radko-gudas-to-play-vs-maple-leafs-despite-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/531377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks captain Radko Gudas to play vs. Maple Leafs despite injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radko Gudas<\/a> will suit up on Monday night for the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in their rematch with the Maple Leafs (Sportsnet Ontario, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET) after ending Auston Matthews’ season early.<\/p>\n

Gudas confirmed he’d be in the lineup to reporters following Monday morning’s skate, telling reporters<\/a>, “I want to stand behind my own mistakes.”<\/p>\n

Gudas’ knee-on-knee hit on Matthews on March 12 resulted in a Grade 3 MCL tear for Toronto’s star that required surgery.<\/p>\n

Gudas, who is the Ducks’ captain, was suspended for five games for the play, a ruling that raised eyebrows across the league.<\/p>\n

The veteran defenceman missed Anaheim’s game on Saturday against the Edmonton Oilers due to injury and was seen in a walking boot before the game, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n

“Whether you call it the code, or you call it the sportsman’s way of doing things, he recognizes that the Maple Leafs want a piece of him, and he wants to play,” Friedman said.<\/p>\n

In 54 games this season, the Czech has two goals, 11 assists and 45 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radko Gudas will suit up on Monday night for the Anaheim Ducks in their rematch with the Maple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-531377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116319395857060998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531377","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=531377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}