Kristen Shilton Mar 13, 2026, 07:44 PM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 NHL season with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee, the team announced Friday. Matthews, who has a Grade 3 MCL tear and a bruised quadriceps muscle, will be reevaluated in two weeks. The Maple Leafs' update came a little less than 24 hours after Matthews was knocked out of Thursday night's game against the Anaheim Ducks on a knee-on-knee hit from Radko Gudas . Gudas was given a major penalty and ejected. On Friday night, he was suspended five games for kneeing , the maximum the league's Department of Safety could levy because his hearing was by phone. Matthews' agent, Judd Moldaver, said in a statement that "in light of the obvious severity of the play, I am very disappointed and shocked that the league would allow for such a ruling." Moldaver took issue with the decision to limit the suspension to five games.…