Auston Matthew 50 in 50 watch (37 in 42 so far)

[AvsFan29]

He's probably the streakiest of all the top goal scorers in the league, so it depends if he keeps up his hot streak, or if he scores 1 goal in 10 games and blows it

 

[The90]

He's probably the streakiest of all the top goal scorers in the league, so it depends if he keeps up his hot streak, or if he scores 1 goal in 10 games and blows it

Best part of comments like this is that he’s the LEAST streaky goal scorer in the league. On top of him scoring more goals than anyone else in the league, he’s also scored in more games than anyone else in the league. Aside from this season, Matthews was notorious for 1 and 2 goal games. Hes had relatively few hat tricks in comparison to ovechkin, pasta / drai.

 

[Raging Bull]

He's probably the streakiest of all the top goal scorers in the league, so it depends if he keeps up his hot streak, or if he scores 1 goal in 10 games and blows it

He never goes more than 3 or 4 games without a goal wtf?

 

[Sundinisagod]

He's probably the streakiest of all the top goal scorers in the league, so it depends if he keeps up his hot streak, or if he scores 1 goal in 10 games and blows it

Could not be more wrong.

 

[Rob Brown]

He's probably the streakiest of all the top goal scorers in the league, so it depends if he keeps up his hot streak, or if he scores 1 goal in 10 games and blows it

lolwut

 

[AvsFan29]

He never goes more than 3 or 4 games without a goal wtf?

before this hot streak, he was on a cold streak for a month.

Which is why I said he's streaky.

lolwut

Look up his stats

Could not be more wrong.

Look it up

 

[Frank Drebin]

Could not be more wrong.

I remember he had 6 goals in his first 2 games and I went to check on him during game 7 where he scored his 7th and 8th. I think anyway

 

[AvsFan29]

I remember he had 6 goals in his first 2 games and I went to check on him during game 7 where he scored his 7th and 8th. I think anyway

Leaf fans are the most delusional fans in the league. They quickly forget that he disappears all the time, and does f*** all in the playoffs

 

[Frank Drebin]

Leaf fans are the most delusional fans in the league. They quickly forget that he disappears all the time, and does f*** all in the playoffs

He's a great goal scorer no doubt. 15 goals in the month of January. Leafs game log looks atrocious during that time

 

[The90]

Leaf fans are the most delusional fans in the league. They quickly forget that he disappears all the time, and does f*** all in the playoffs

Blows delusional, yet accurate kiss*

 

[AvsFan29]

He's a great goal scorer no doubt. 15 goals in the month of January. Leafs game log looks atrocious during that time

Yah he's the best goal scorer in the game currently. There's probably 10-20 guys I take over him during the playoffs, though

 

[notbias]

Yah he's the best goal scorer in the game currently. There's probably 10-20 guys I take over him during the playoffs, though

Don't worry, we are sucking this year, we may be able to luck into getting a generational D this year at the draft... then we will win the cup and everyone will forget that Toronto wasn't good in the playoffs... happened with another team, can't remember who though.

 

[Regal]

Leaf fans are the most delusional fans in the league. They quickly forget that he disappears all the time, and does f*** all in the playoffs

Goalscorers tend to be streakier than more rounded offensive players but he’s easily been the most consistent among top goalscorers in the league over his career. Calling him the streakiest is simply not supported factually.

 

[AvsFan29]

Don't worry, we are sucking this year, we may be able to luck into getting a generational D this year at the draft... then we will win the cup and everyone will forget that Toronto wasn't good in the playoffs... happened with another team, can't remember who though.

We actually got Makar through bad luck lol but yah it helps to have a generational Dman.

 

[Sundinisagod]

View attachment 792649before this hot streak, he was on a cold streak for a month.

Which is why I said he's streaky.


Look up his stats


Look it up

You claimed he was probably the streakiest goal scorer compared to other top scorers. That’s still completely false.

 

[wetcoast]

I hope that he makes it to 50 in 50 HF Boards would have a meltdown.

 

[Statto]

I hope that he makes it to 50 in 50 HF Boards would have a meltdown.

He won’t because he missed a game, so it won’t technically be 50 in 50, because the county officially ended when he missed that game. It’s still a great achievement if he gets 50 by his own 50th game but it won’t count.

There are ‘rules’ to scoring records, some which seem harsh but are needed to have meaningful stats. I forget the season but Gretzky had a regular season scoring steak officially end at game 82 (or whatever it was that year) and it didn’t roll over to the following year even though he ran out of games before he stopped scoring. Like the 50 in 50 it’s just the way it is.

 

[wetcoast]

He won’t because he missed a game, so it won’t technically be 50 in 50, because the county officially ended when he missed that game. It’s still a great achievement if he gets 50 by his own 50th game but it won’t count.

There are ‘rules’ to scoring records, some which seem harsh but are needed to have meaningful stats. I forget the season but Gretzky had a regular season scoring steak officially end at game 82 (or whatever it was that year) and it didn’t roll over to the following year even though he ran out of games before he stopped scoring. Like the 50 in 50 it’s just the way it is.

I know so if he scored 50 in his 50th there would be an even bigger meltdown here but even if he scores 50 in the Leafs 50 games this place will explode.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

He’s having an amazing goal scoring year! Let’s just enjoy it instead of trying to diminish it.

 

[Regal]

He won’t because he missed a game, so it won’t technically be 50 in 50, because the county officially ended when he missed that game. It’s still a great achievement if he gets 50 by his own 50th game but it won’t count.

There are ‘rules’ to scoring records, some which seem harsh but are needed to have meaningful stats. I forget the season but Gretzky had a regular season scoring steak officially end at game 82 (or whatever it was that year) and it didn’t roll over to the following year even though he ran out of games before he stopped scoring. Like the 50 in 50 it’s just the way it is.

Missing games doesn’t affect the record if you still score 50 in your team’s first 50 games though. So if he hit 50 in his first 49 without missing more games, it would be an official 50 in 50

 

[pcruz]

I hope that he makes it to 50 in 50 HF Boards would have a meltdown.

They would argue until blue in the face that the NHL schedule gifted him easy opponents and that he hadn't faced nearly the quality of competition as the true 50 in 50 players, therefore it should have an asterisk to it.

I'm not kidding.

 

[wetcoast]

They would argue until blue in the face that the NHL schedule gifted him easy opponents and that he hadn't faced nearly the quality of competition as the true 50 in 50 players, therefore it should have an asterisk to it.

I'm not kidding.

No the biggest argument would be playoffs like it has anything to do with scoring 50 in 50.

 

[Auston Marlander]

He won’t because he missed a game, so it won’t technically be 50 in 50, because the county officially ended when he missed that game. It’s still a great achievement if he gets 50 by his own 50th game but it won’t count.

There are ‘rules’ to scoring records, some which seem harsh but are needed to have meaningful stats. I forget the season but Gretzky had a regular season scoring steak officially end at game 82 (or whatever it was that year) and it didn’t roll over to the following year even though he ran out of games before he stopped scoring. Like the 50 in 50 it’s just the way it is.

Missing games means nothing. As long as he scores 50 in the teams first 50 it's part of the official record.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

Missing games means nothing. As long as he scores 50 in the teams first 50 it's part of the official record.

This is absolutely true. See Lemieux's 1989 season.

The Penguins' 50th game of the season was on January 31st. Lemieux played 48 of the team's first 50 games. He had scored 54 goals by that point. It still counts as an official 50 in 50, because he reached 50 goals within the team's first fifty games. The fact that he missed two games is irrelevant.

Matthews is currently at 29 goals in 32 personal games, and 33 team games. If he scores 21 goals over the Leafs' next 17 games (regardless of how many games he plays/misses), he'd achieve an official 50 in 50. (And if he scores 21 goals over the next 18 games that he personally plays in, it would be an unofficial 50 in 50 - but still very impressive).

 

[Video Nasty]

They would argue until blue in the face that the NHL schedule gifted him easy opponents and that he hadn't faced nearly the quality of competition as the true 50 in 50 players, therefore it should have an asterisk to it.

I'm not kidding.

You’re not kidding, but you’re constructing a strawman.

Few people didn’t enjoy seeing Matthews pot 51 in 50 personal games.

The pushback came from people pretending it qualified him for the club.

But sure, we can keep pretending that wasn’t the reason.