Player Discussion Auston Matthews (Captain Edition)

[Sypher04]

Yeah I know right?! Another disappointing 1st round loss but f*** those asshole fans for wanting to know why Matthews missed time in a series they very well could have won. All 31 other teams may do it, but not us!

Wanting to know is fine, we’d all like to understand. You’re just not entitled to any players’ injury details, despite you wanting to act like what I said is so unreasonable.

Anyway, I’m going to excuse myself from this chat. Seems pretty clear you just want to be outraged about everything.

 

[IPS]

Wanting to know is fine, we’d all like to understand. You’re just not entitled to any players’ injury details, despite you wanting to act like what I said is so unreasonable.

Anyway, I’m going to excuse myself from this chat. Seems pretty clear you just want to be outraged about everything.

Not at all! Just having my daily laugh at the koolaid drinkers. (also you're the one who initiated the conversation with me )

 

[Sypher04]

Not at all! Just having my daily laugh at the koolaid drinkers. (also you're the one who initiated the conversation with me )

lol koolaid drinker, sure. Keep telling yourself that.

Initiated with a quote sure, but not really the conversation. You made a post talking about “people making injury excuses for Matthews” right on the heels of a post of mine where I’d mentioned his injuries, so you started the discussion effectively.

Also even if I had, not sure why that’s supposed to matter.

 

[IPS]

lol koolaid drinker, sure. Keep telling yourself that.

Initiated with a quote sure, but not really the conversation. You made a post talking about “people making injury excuses for Matthews” right on the heels of a post of mine where I’d mentioned his injuries, so you started the discussion effectively.

Also even if I had, not sure why that’s supposed to matter.

I just caught up on the last ~5 or so pages of the thread that obviously has quite a few variations of opinions. If it did look it was targeting yours, it wasn't. If I take umbrage with someone's opinion specifically I quote them. I don't care for those little teenage girl tactics of just throwing things out to passively aggressively provoke people.

 

[ULF_55]

I guess we can ask if he'll hit 40 goals this year?

 

[Stringer Bell]

He looks cooked.

 

[Sypher04]

He looks cooked.

No he doesn’t.

 

[Aashir]

I guess we can ask if he'll hit 40 goals this year?

The ENG’s surely are helping his totals this season

Probs finishes around high 30’s total and 40-ish pace like his 2nd and 3rd year

Not the best year for his caliber + contract

 

[ULF_55]

He looks cooked.

Rare or well done?

Rantanen and Aho for Matthews and Robertson?

 

[BrannigansLaw]

he’s either a) injured again, b) still moping about the 4 nations or c) doesn’t care about these mid season games.

My guess is a combo of all 3.

 

[arso40]

he’s either a) injured again, b) still moping about the 4 nations or c) doesn’t care about these mid season games.

My guess is a combo of all 3.

Definitely would remove b

 

[Stringer Bell]

No he doesn’t.

Someone who looks half as good as they can and have generally looks cooked. I’m not saying he is, just that he looks it.

Rare or well done?

Rantanen and Aho for Matthews and Robertson?

Medium to well done.

 

[notbias]

he’s either a) injured again, b) still moping about the 4 nations or c) doesn’t care about these mid season games.

My guess is a combo of all 3.

He's injured, they said he'd be injured all year and they'd just manage it.

My guess is A.

 

[ULF_55]

Someone who looks half as good as they can and have generally looks cooked. I’m not saying he is, just that he looks it.


Medium to well done.

For some strange reason I'm getting hungry.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

He tried for one game (still lost) he needs to recharge for the rest of the season. We need him for the playoffs where he'll need to try and win 4 series straight...

 

[Ports]

I presume you just mean this year, because he could absolutely bounce back next year if healthy

No doubt and hopefully this is just temporary but we don’t even know what he’s dealing with.

 

[mikeyz]

Man, he looks completely lost out there right now. This injury he’s dealing with has got to be significant.

 

[thewave]

Man, he looks completely lost out there right now. This injury he’s dealing with has got to be significant.

Back is back man. Ruins your day, life career if it's bad. Hope it's treatable

 

[IPS]

Man, he looks completely lost out there right now. This injury he’s dealing with has got to be significant.

Been the story with him all year and we still shipped him off to the 4 nations.

 

[BallardEra]

I guess we can ask if he'll hit 40 goals this year?

19 goals in 24 games is not very likely to happen for him this season.

 

[hoglund]

It still looks like Mathews is injured, he played terrible in the 4 Nations tournament and we need the old Mathews if we want to do anything in the playoffs. I should say if we make the playoffs because you have to play well to get there.

 

[BraveCanadian]

People never run out of excuses for this guy

If he is hurt, he should have sat out the 4 Nations. If he isn’t hurt, he needs to get his act together cause he’s playing at half his cap hit right now.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

People never run out of excuses for this guy

If he is hurt, he should have sat out the 4 Nations. If he isn’t hurt, he needs to get his act together cause he’s playing at half his cap hit right now.

Wait until next year with the Olympics AND the All Star game.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

He’s really regressed. He looked great in January coming back from injury the second time, but since February he’s been playing below the level we’re accustomed to. We’re not doctors but if another two week rest would get him right again like it did at the end of December then they should do it.

 

[Chief Leaf]

He's injured, they said he'd be injured all year and they'd just manage it.

My guess is A.

Matthews use to stand at the hash marks with his stick highly cocked in the air for the one timer. He hasn't done that for months. It tells me he is injured for sure. Why else would you stop using a one timer slapshot? ....injured.