{"id":68932,"date":"2026-03-13T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/toronto-maple-leafs-auston-matthews-out-for-season-with-torn-mcl-after-hit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:04:12","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-auston-matthews-out-for-season-with-torn-mcl-after-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/toronto-maple-leafs-auston-matthews-out-for-season-with-torn-mcl-after-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 Auston Matthews out for season with torn MCL after hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Leafs lose American star for rest of NHL season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Toronto star suffered Grade 3 tear of left MCL<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Radko Gudas could face suspension after hit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>The team provided an injury update Friday night, a little under 24 hours since Matthews was knocked out of a game against Anaheim on a knee-on-knee hit from Radko Gudas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/13\/auston-matthews-out-season-torn-mcl-radko-gudas-hit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leafs lose American star for rest of NHL season Toronto star suffered Grade 3 tear of left MCL Radko Gudas could face suspension after hit Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season. The team provided an injury &#8230; <a title=\"Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 Auston Matthews out for season with torn MCL after hit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/toronto-maple-leafs-auston-matthews-out-for-season-with-torn-mcl-after-hit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 Auston Matthews out for season with torn MCL after hit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}