Auston Matthews
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Kin
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:You need to update your consciousness. Fancy stats are about anything and everything but that.
It's true. Mainly they're about possession and shot generation and where does Auston "Lazybones" Matthews rank there? Why his CF% is a measly 55.3%. Why, that's barely 7 points higher than Connor McSuperman.
Worst of all his Heartitude is a -4.5, his Gritty Competeness percentage is a miserable 33% and his AppealtoloudmouthedknownothingCherryfans Quotient is a pathetic Gorfty-Seven.
bustaheims
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Nik Bethune said:
Pfft. That's only 6th among forwards who have played at least 20 games this season, and average at least 14 minutes of 5-on-5 time.
Kin
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The Leafs right now have two guys on the team making 11+ million a year. Of the two here's who leads in the various statistical categories:
Goals: Matthews
Assists: Matthews
Points: Matthews
Goals per game: Matthews
Assists per game: Tied
Points per game: Matthews
CF%: Matthews
Fenwick%: Tied
+/-: Matthews
Faceoff %: Matthews
Blocks: Matthews
Hits: Matthews
But man, that Matthews really needs to start earning his money.
Goals: Matthews
Assists: Matthews
Points: Matthews
Goals per game: Matthews
Assists per game: Tied
Points per game: Matthews
CF%: Matthews
Fenwick%: Tied
+/-: Matthews
Faceoff %: Matthews
Blocks: Matthews
Hits: Matthews
But man, that Matthews really needs to start earning his money.
Highlander
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Now we just need the Goat to have a couple of hat-tricks to really motivate AM. Bha Bha
ZBBM
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Nik Bethune said:Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:You need to update your consciousness. Fancy stats are about anything and everything but that.
It's true. Mainly they're about possession and shot generation and where does Auston "Lazybones" Matthews rank there? Why his CF% is a measly 55.3%. Why, that's barely 7 points higher than Connor McSuperman.
Worst of all his Heartitude is a -4.5, his Gritty Competeness percentage is a miserable 33% and his AppealtoloudmouthedknownothingCherryfans Quotient is a pathetic Gorfty-Seven.
Gorfty-Six. Quit giving the Entitled Bum a free pass.
Highlander
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Get it right is Entitled Bum Cheeks (covered, not stirred of course)Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:Nik Bethune said:Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:You need to update your consciousness. Fancy stats are about anything and everything but that.
It's true. Mainly they're about possession and shot generation and where does Auston "Lazybones" Matthews rank there? Why his CF% is a measly 55.3%. Why, that's barely 7 points higher than Connor McSuperman.
Worst of all his Heartitude is a -4.5, his Gritty Competeness percentage is a miserable 33% and his AppealtoloudmouthedknownothingCherryfans Quotient is a pathetic Gorfty-Seven.
Gorfty-Six. Quit giving the Entitled Bum a free pass.
Arn
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Certainly:
It starts off talking about the fairly generic things you'd expect of a youngster getting more professional - changes he's made to his routines and he talks about focusing more on being ready pre-game and using the resources that the Leafs make available to ensure he's ready to go.
Talks a bit about avoiding social media also and acknowledging that while he feels he hadn't been playing as well of late he'd rather focus on positives than subject himself to negative social media. Also talks about keeping loose and being aware that if you do some of your warm up in a different order it shouldn't get in your head and impact your game.
- But the real interesting bits I think and where I feel he's quite candid are his recognition that his line needs to improve. He references both the Edmonton and Calgary games and says they were having far too many one and done chances and they need to learn to be more relentless.
- Also discusses Keefe's system and notes that while players have more licence to roam there still needs to be structure to ensure you're in a position to help or cover a team mate. Recognises that the team haven't quite mastered this yet and have had 2 players in the same place and left gaps.
- Feels that he has improved defensively since he came into the league but as a centre he has to continue developing and learning. References that one of the best forms of defence is possessing the puck and faceoffs are crucial in that and he feels he has improved in the faceoff circle. Feels that continued improvement in these "little things" should help to drive bigger things.
- Feels he has another level to go to as far as goalscoring. He has been working on developing a one timer (the "piss missiles" Herman mentioned) and he needs to be better on the powerplay which the one timer will hopefully help. He's been working on these with assistant coach Paul McFarland and he specifically asked Barrie to try and feed this on the powerplay on Tuesday as he feels ready to start utilising it on games on the PP now.
It's hard to convey the tone of the interview, but I just felt that when you think of the immaturity he displayed in the summer, when it comes to the game the tone of this came across as pretty mature, candid and willing to admit weaknesses but also a confidence that he can continue to get even better not just at goal scoring but also at other things that will potentially make him a better all round player but also an even better goal scorer
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Arn said:
Which is really kind of crazy when you factor in that he's on pace to have well above 500 goals over a 1000 game career right now. There isn't an unreasonable chance that he gets to 200 goals by the end of next season (would need back to back 50 goal seasons). If he finds that next gear and can pot a 60 goal season or two....man.
Guilt Trip
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Saw this today....
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/top-shelf-move-auston-matthews-to-make-fans-dying-wish-come-true
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/top-shelf-move-auston-matthews-to-make-fans-dying-wish-come-true
hockeyfan1
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Guilt Trip said:
Awesome!
https://twitter.com/LeafsPR/status/1220126864309735436
Matthews will be hanging out in St. Louis, but won't be skating up.
Matthews will be hanging out in St. Louis, but won't be skating up.
Matthews has had an "ongoing wrist condition" (who knows for how long that means) and he's still 2nd in the league in goals and has 15 in his last 15 games.
Interesting. That kind of came out of nowhere, but it seemed to me that lately Matthews hasn't been as quick getting off his shot when he tries to do that toe-drag move. The one-timers and deflections seem OK but I've noticed that defenders have been breaking up some of his wrist shot attempts that he would normally have no trouble with.