In the week leading up to the Maple Leafs' drafting of Auston Matthews, I asked a lot of hockey people about what kind of player Matthews would be.
We do know this much: There is a lot to like here with this team. It helped that Scottie Barnes didn’t just arrive but flourished and should become the third Raptor to win the NBA’s rookie of the year award. Pascal Siakam, seemingly lost the past two seasons, emerged as one of the best players in the NBA, a sure-thing all-star, if the voters get this right. He’s in the Hall. Jimmy Rutherford has missed the playoffs 13 times. In November, Doug Wilson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player. Matthews will soon hit the 60-goal mark — the first time anyone has done that in a decade. He has scored at 52-goal pace since entering the NHL, that coming at a time when 50-goal scoring seasons are becoming extinct. What no one said at the time: He will become one of the great goal scorers in NHL history. Article content The comparison that kept coming back: He will be an Anze Kopitar-type centre, large and difficult to play against, but with more offence than Kopitar, who had earlier been called the most complete centre in the NHL by Wayne Gretzky, of all people. Article content Article content
Those were the latest numbers for Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews on Saturday night, as he scored a pair of goals 27 seconds apart in the first period of ...
“The way (Matthews) was playing, you felt like he was going to have a serious night.” Erik Källgren got the start in goal and responded by kicking out 24 of 26 shots he faced. Vaive, who had three 50-goal years and the Leafs’ single-season record until this week, said he “hopes Matthews scores 65.” “He had some really nice words, and guys like him paved the way for players like us. It’s fun to watch, and me having a front-row seat to it, we’re all having fun … Every time Auston scores, the whole team is excited.” Matthews has eight goals in five games this month, and he hasn’t been held pointless since March 2.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are having an all-time great season. They are on pace to break the franchise marks in both goals and points. A big reason for their ...
While Matthews is already the franchise season leader in goals, he also holds the most even-strength goals in a campaign. Sittler managed to top it one year later with 117 points, which is still good enough for the second-best campaign in franchise history. The most any Leaf has ever recorded in a campaign is 127. This remarkable run has many more milestones in reach and there’s a good chance Matthews will collect them. Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews is on fire this season. The Toronto Maple Leafs are having an all-time great season.
First, Auston Matthews was honoured at the start of the game for setting the franchise record for most goals in a single season. He beat the record previously ...
Toronto maple Leafs prospect, Matthew Knies is back in Minnesota. He’s expected to connect with the Leafs in the next 24-48hrs. I’m going to quote all of the segment ( or you can watch it here) instead of trying to paraphrase: So I think the biggest thing is: does Knies want to go back next year to try and win a national championship? He’s been out with a torn UCL since Jan 1 https://t.co/687b9ToLaB April 10, 2022 And with the win, they both reached 100 points on the season, and they clinched a playoff spot. The last few rumours and statements we’ve heard have all been saying it seems like Knies will return to the NCAA for one more season. By the way, has anyone else’s chest start tightening a bit the closer we get to the playoffs? So now it’s a question of how many will Matthews’ score by the end of the season? They’re 5 points up on Boston and 6 points on Tampa Bay, both who have one game in hand. Auston was also given a standing ovation before the game started. Oh you know people will be mad about that, not least because it will be very difficult for him not to win the Hart at that point. Alex Ovechkin had 65 in 2007/08, and Steven Stamkos had 60 on the dot in 2011/12.
Auston Matthews has been on a scorching pace for the Toronto Maple Leafs this season, appearing on SportsCentre on TSN on a near-nightly basis.
How many did he score the prior season in the last, let’s say 5 games. With seasons just 50 games back then, the idea was always to see if you could hit 50 goals in as many games from the start of the season. — TSN (@TSN_Sports)April 10, 2022
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens last night 3-2. How did Auston Matthews hep secure the win? What is Rick Vaive's history?
The last time the Maple Lears had lost in regulation was on March 26, and they lost to this same Canadiens team by a score 4-2. He looks forward to sharing his insights about the Toronto Maple Leafs and about how sports engages life more fully. At home, he has compiled a 4-0-1 record, with a goals-against-average of 1.78, and a save percentage of .939. On the road, his record is 1-2-0, with a goals-against-average of 4.11, and a save percentage of .859. Tavares’ goal was also the kind of lucky goal that seems to happen when there’s a lot of action in front of the net. His hobbies include playing with his hockey cards and simply being a sports fan – hockey, the Toronto Raptors, and CFL football (thinks Ricky Ray personifies how a professional athlete should act). They started the game hard and eventually beat a hard-working Montreal team. It was nice to see him being honored with Matthews over the past week. John Tavares scored the game-winning goal last night and is now on a modest three-game, four-point scoring streak. With those goals, Matthews became the first player in 25 years to score 50 goals in a 50-game stretch. Over the season, Matthews has now scored 58 goals and added 41 assists (for 99 points) in only 67 games. They also hit the 100-point mark in the standings. It was, as some readers tell Maple Leafs’ writers regularly, the last time the Maple Leafs won the Cup.
Auston Matthews scored two goals, but the Montreal Canadiens hung on in a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday at Scotiabank Arena.
Blame the national broadcast and the two early goals on the Liveblog commenters having their fill of Auston-mania. Yes, he’s putting together a Hart Trophy-calibre season and scoring at a historic pace in this era of hockey, but for two periods, the lowly Habs kept the Leafs honest. The Leafs regained their two-goal lead when John Tavares spun around and fired directly at Harris’ skate in the crease. The Canadiens halved the lead early in the second. Jeff Petry returned to the lineup after missing seven games. Jake Allen left the game after the first goal with a lower-body injury and did not return. Matthews scored twice in the opening frame, but the Habs only allowed a goal off Jordan Harris’ skate the rest of the way as they nearly clawed back from a two-goal deficit.
Auston Matthews scored two goals, but the Montreal Canadiens hung on in a 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday at Scotiabank Arena.
Blame the national broadcast and the two early goals on the Liveblog commenters having their fill of Auston-mania. Yes, he’s putting together a Hart Trophy-calibre season and scoring at a historic pace in this era of hockey, but for two periods, the lowly Habs kept the Leafs honest. The Leafs regained their two-goal lead when John Tavares spun around and fired directly at Harris’ skate in the crease. The Canadiens halved the lead early in the second. Jeff Petry returned to the lineup after missing seven games. Jake Allen left the game after the first goal with a lower-body injury and did not return. Matthews scored twice in the opening frame, but the Habs only allowed a goal off Jordan Harris’ skate the rest of the way as they nearly clawed back from a two-goal deficit.
Auston Matthews set the Toronto Maple Leafs single-season goals record while scoring four times in last two games, but he isn't done yet.
Using his goals per game over those 10 games, he would be on pace to score 11 goals over the last 10 games, bringing his season total to 69 goals. In the last 10 games, Matthews has a GPG of 1.1 (11 goals in the last 10 games). Scorers can be incredibly streaky over the course of a year, and although Matthews is notoriously not a streaky scorer, it would be very hard to argue that he isn’t playing some of the best hockey of the year right now. While many may look at Matthews and say that the expectation is to now break the 60 goal mark, which would be an amazing achievement in itself. 67 goals would be an incredible feat for Matthews to accomplish, but is this realistic? Matthews then put an emphasis on the season by not only scoring his 55th goal of the season, setting a new record for the Maple Leafs, but also scoring his 56th on an overtime winner. With 11 games remaining on the Leafs regular-season schedule, this would mean that, if he follows his season average, Matthews would finish with 67 goals on the season This would make him the first player to do so since Alex Ovechkin scored 65 in the 07-08 season.