Player Discussion Auston Matthews (Captain Edition)

[Nineteen67]

20 goals in 40 games for him this season.

On pace for 34 goals.

Considering how he’s played that’s decent production.

He’ll have fun next week.


I wonder if he’ll be the captain of the Olympic team if he plays normal in the 4 nations. He may actually go to the Worlds if it’s in question.

 

[Stephen]

If he plays like this for the 4 Nations the Americans are in for a rude awakening. Other than that, hopefully the tournament teaches him about intensity and what other superstars do around the league. This year standards have really, really slipped injuries or not.

 

[34]

He is not the same player that won 3 Rockets, Hart, Ted Lindsay… He looks like a fourth line scrub on the ice now. He contributes absolutely nothing. He also looks insanely slow now. Was he always this slow?

 

[Aashir]

He is not the same player that won 3 Rockets, Hart, Ted Lindsay… He looks like a fourth line scrub on the ice now. He contributes absolutely nothing. He also looks insanely slow now. Was he always this slow?

He’s in his “off year” he has one every other year

his last off year was 2022-2023 wanna know what he had 40 games in?

19G 27A 46P

We have payed 13.25M for a guy who is a top 25 player one year, than a top 5 the next, on average that would make him top 15

Just look at draisaitl, makes 14M NEXT year, yet he’s out performing Mcdavid and all oilers fans are saying he’s a tier above Mcdavid this season. Matthews can’t even outperform Marner, let alone Mcdavid or draisaitl.

We have/will overpay the core 3 by around 6M starting next year

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

He’s in his “off year” he has one every other year

his last off year was 2022-2023 wanna know what he had 40 games in?

19G 27A 46P

We have payed 13.25M for a guy who is a top 25 player one year, than a top 5 the next, on average that would make him top 15

Just look at draisaitl, makes 14M NEXT year, yet he’s out performing Mcdavid and all oilers fans are saying he’s a tier above Mcdavid this season. Matthews can’t even outperform Marner, let alone Mcdavid or draisaitl.

We have/will overpay the core 3 by around 6M starting next year

Yet you will still have people arguing with you that not only is this not true, but also that if it is true that it is somehow good.

 

[thewave]

He’s in his “off year” he has one every other year

his last off year was 2022-2023 wanna know what he had 40 games in?

19G 27A 46P

We have payed 13.25M for a guy who is a top 25 player one year, than a top 5 the next, on average that would make him top 15

Just look at draisaitl, makes 14M NEXT year, yet he’s out performing Mcdavid and all oilers fans are saying he’s a tier above Mcdavid this season. Matthews can’t even outperform Marner, let alone Mcdavid or draisaitl.

We have/will overpay the core 3 by around 6M starting next year

6m overpay. 2m per 3m depth player = 3 extra 5m players which are way better. We got Jerseys and TV rights though.

 

[Aashir]

6m overpay. 2m per 3m depth player = 3 extra 5m players which are way better. We got Jerseys and TV rights though.

we could've upgraded to a walker/pesce/montour instead of an OEL or looked into another top 6 LW instead of Patches or we could've even just went all in on one player like a dman above or a winger and still added OEL or whoever the winger we got too

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

He’s in his “off year” he has one every other year

his last off year was 2022-2023 wanna know what he had 40 games in?

19G 27A 46P

We have payed 13.25M for a guy who is a top 25 player one year, than a top 5 the next, on average that would make him top 15

Just look at draisaitl, makes 14M NEXT year, yet he’s out performing Mcdavid and all oilers fans are saying he’s a tier above Mcdavid this season. Matthews can’t even outperform Marner, let alone Mcdavid or draisaitl.

We have/will overpay the core 3 by around 6M starting next year

Been a problem since the Big Three’s second contracts. Overpaying them by a combined $3-$4 million cost them Hyman, forced them to trade a 1st for Marleau, and blocked us from acquiring who knows what free agents we could’ve had if we just had a little more money to work with.

The most promising generation of this team in decades, undone because of greedy players and a weak GM.

 

[BraveCanadian]

The best part of all this is people hall passing a guy playing every other year and citing injuries and every other excuse for the guy who is supposedly the captain and highest paid player in the league… while simultaneously trashing Marner’s play every day and arm-chair psychoanalyzing him to put him down personally.. all because GOALZ.

Matthew$ has been a terrible investment so far..

 

[Aashir]

The best part of all this is people hall passing a guy playing every other year and citing injuries and every other excuse for the guy who is supposedly the captain and highest paid player in the league… while simultaneously trashing Marner’s play every day and arm-chair psychoanalyzing him to put him down personally.. all because GOALZ.

Matthew$ has been a terrible investment so far..

They all will be I don’t see a winning combination of them. Maybe if nylander was the 4th-5th forward on a team, or Marner was a Kessel on a team or Matthews was a Barkov to a tkachuk with reinhart, Bennett, lundell etc..maybe they can win, but they don’t seem capable of winning as 1, 2, 3 on the same team

This might be the first time since I’ve joined that Matthews is getting hate, otherwise it’s always the other 3, but his play has easily warranted it

 

[Stephen]

The best part of all this is people hall passing a guy playing every other year and citing injuries and every other excuse for the guy who is supposedly the captain and highest paid player in the league… while simultaneously trashing Marner’s play every day and arm-chair psychoanalyzing him to put him down personally.. all because GOALZ.

Matthew$ has been a terrible investment so far..

Matthews hasn’t quite delivered on the promise of being the second best player in the game to McDavid. I think he’s lived up to the hype but isn’t keeping up with the consistency, drive and playoff success of guys like Drai, Mackinnon, Kucherov and those Art Ross threats, so there’s lingering disappointment there that he’s not hitting the level he should be.

That said, he’s gotten the golden boy treatment for a decade and always got off lightly when the blame share came due and more of the privileges. Yeah he’s better than Marner in the regular season, but he’s been a flop in the playoffs too. His lukewarm captaincy, mysterious injuries and up and down quality of play hasn’t been that enjoyable to follow this year.

 

[Enniskillen]

Not a captain material. Glad he is signed only for four years. Imagine having this pathetic captain for 8 years? Regular season warrior, sure, I can give him that. But he can’t fight in playoffs. I am sure he’ll find a couple of mysterious ailments impeding his playoff success again.

 

[BertCorbeau]

He’s been battling something all year and hasn’t scored in awhile.

I wish he would just pull himself out of the 4 Nations for some extra rest for what matters.