The Matthews line was also pretty much the only USA line regularly threatening Canada. Your right, he blew the coverage a bit, but overall he was the best american player today IMO.
- 2x primary assists
- Multiple key defensive plays and forced a few turnovers in the American zone.
- Involved in multiple chances to score/assist the game winner in OT which were mostly nice saves by Binner.
- One slightly blown coverage which I think was partially a miscommunication given the dman pulled back at the same time Matthews started to try and re-adjust.
The above sounds like a pretty damn good game... One of our Leafs had to lose today, but I'm glad they both turned in player of the match worthy performances. In fact, I really think the 3 stars should've been:
1 - Binnington
2 - Marner
3 - Matthews