Tribute Auston Matthews Discussion "the Beauty" Edition

[stickty111]

I was just reading old threads, and I remembered this one.
Have teams figured out Matthews?

Thank you to @CantLoseWithMatthews for this amazing mocking the troll post.

Matthews was a -4 in a 6-1 win, he's garbage

I just had to like it.

 

[Duke Silver]

He's having an insane season.

 

[LeafsNation75]

I was just reading old threads, and I remembered this one.
Have teams figured out Matthews?

Thank you to @CantLoseWithMatthews for this amazing mocking the troll post.




I just had to like it.

That was a fun thread to go back and read, so thanks for posting the link.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I was just reading old threads, and I remembered this one.
Have teams figured out Matthews?

Thank you to @CantLoseWithMatthews for this amazing mocking the troll post.




I just had to like it.

Yeesh what a bad thread. I have to imagine that OP was just a shit disturber because he hasn’t posted in over 2 years now. Who looks at a rookie roughly a month into his career and thinks teams have figured him out?

 

[LeafsNation75]

Yeesh what a bad thread. I have to imagine that OP was just a **** disturber because he hasn’t posted in over 2 years now. Who looks at a rookie roughly a month into his career and thinks teams have figured him out?

That seems like a thing non Leafs fans would have said about Matthews when he went a few games without scoring a goal, so you wouldn't think that would come from a Leafs fan.

 

[stickty111]

Yeesh what a bad thread. I have to imagine that OP was just a **** disturber because he hasn’t posted in over 2 years now. Who looks at a rookie roughly a month into his career and thinks teams have figured him out?

The best part about it is the people who were saying Matthews isn't close to Laine or McDavid.

Plus Matthews was playing well too. He was just getting unlucky a lot.

 

[LeafsNation75]

The best part about it is the fan who was saying Matthews isn't close to Laine or McDavid.

No player in the NHL is close to McDavid and there is nothing wrong with admitting that.

However Matthews already proved he's much better than Laine because you never hear anything bad said about him from all of Laine's fans from Finland, because I remember on the main board they were a loud group in the Calder debate threads complaining about anything said that made Matthews look better than Laine.

 

[stickty111]

That seems like a thing non Leafs fans would have said about Matthews when he went a few games without scoring a goal, so you wouldn't think that would come from a Leafs fan.

Around the same time this came out. Hayes was close to losing it on Lawless

Lawless: Laine is a better goal scorer than Matthews

Lawless said "Laine moves like Mats Sundin"
Lol

Jamie of all people didn't make negative Leafs comments.

 

[stickty111]

No player in the NHL is close to McDavid and there is nothing wrong with admitting that.

However Matthews already proved he's much better than Laine because you never hear anything bad said about him from all of Laine's fans from Finland, because I remember on the main board they were a loud group in the Calder debate threads complaining about anything said that made Matthews look better than Laine.

Oh for sure, McDavid is on a whole other level, but Laine one was bad.

 

[LeafsNation75]

Around the same time this came out. Hayes was close to losing it on Lawless

Lawless: Laine is a better goal scorer than Matthews

I remember during a stretch when Matthews went 13 games without a goal and Laine was scoring goal every night, I heard Lawless on TSN say how Laine was the runaway Calder winner. However he eventually flip flopped and admitted he voted for Matthews.

Oh for sure, McDavid is on a whole other level, but Laine one was bad.

Without a doubt and there is no arguing that.

 

[93LEAFS]

It was funny the argument was "Matthews is a year older, and in 3 years Laine will clearly have surpassed him." If anything, Matthews has only widened the gap more over the past season and a half. I get people are passionate and prefer their guy but how many times that group of posters tried to tell us we were making a huge mistake, was equally hilarious and frustrating. My favorite was the poster who predicted Matthews would only score 120 career goals and be a 3rd liner, who also tore down Jack Hughes this offseason against Kakko.

 

[stickty111]

It was funny the argument was "Matthews is a year older, and in 3 years Laine will clearly have surpassed him." If anything, Matthews has only widened the gap more over the past season and a half. I get people are passionate and prefer their guy but how many times that group of posters tried to tell us we were making a huge mistake, was equally hilarious and frustrating. My favorite was the poster who predicted Matthews would only score 120 career goals and be a 3rd liner, who also tore down Jack Hughes this offseason against Kakko.

During the time, there were a few people saying Matthews is way more NHL ready so he might not grow as a player all that much, and it never made sense.
Matthews was great the 1st season, but he has taken huge steps since. There is still more growing left.

 

[LeafsNation75]

It was funny the argument was "Matthews is a year older, and in 3 years Laine will clearly have surpassed him." If anything, Matthews has only widened the gap more over the past season and a half. I get people are passionate and prefer their guy but how many times that group of posters tried to tell us we were making a huge mistake, was equally hilarious and frustrating. My favorite was the poster who predicted Matthews would only score 120 career goals and be a 3rd liner, who also tore down Jack Hughes this offseason against Kakko.

Actually Matthews is 7 months older than Laine and that's why fans from Finland thought he deserved the Calder more than Matthews. In fact they also thought because Laine got that concussion and missed some games is what screwed him out of the Calder.

That's also funny but in a sad way how that person thought Matthews would score 120 career goals, since his current total is at 147 career goals and counting.

 

[LeafsNation75]

During the time, there were a few people saying Matthews is way more NHL ready so he might not grow as a player all that much, and it never made sense.
Matthews was great the 1st season, but he has taken huge steps since. There is still more growing left.

Matthews defensive game is also improving and I say that's because Sheldon Keefe is giving him more minutes and with that comes more responbilities.

 

[Spargon]

I was just reading old threads, and I remembered this one.
Have teams figured out Matthews?

Thank you to @CantLoseWithMatthews for this amazing mocking the troll post.




I just had to like it.

It was fun seeing the name changes of the trolls/shit posters. You would see a quote using one name and then the original was a different one.

 

[Not My Tempo]

If Matthews drew penalties at a replacement level, he’d be the “best” player in the league this season by GAR

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Matthews is by far and away holding the best give away/ take away ratio of all the top scorers. They don’t even deserve to be in the same sentence with his plus 25. Most of them are in the Minus figure. 55% on face offs, right up there in goal scoring too. His defensive game came around because he knows he has to do that if he wants a cup. The three Amigos are all playing good without the puck actually. It looks promising down the stretch as long as we damn well stomp on all eastern conference teams down the stretch. Most importantly Florida (3 more against them) and tbay.

Need a really good game tonight to boost confidence going in to the Florida game.

 

[ImpartialNHLfan]

No player in the NHL is close to McDavid and there is nothing wrong with admitting that.

However Matthews already proved he's much better than Laine because you never hear anything bad said about him from all of Laine's fans from Finland, because I remember on the main board they were a loud group in the Calder debate threads complaining about anything said that made Matthews look better than Laine.

Ah yes, the infamous "Finnish Five". Good times.

 

[Madap]

It was funny the argument was "Matthews is a year older, and in 3 years Laine will clearly have surpassed him." If anything, Matthews has only widened the gap more over the past season and a half. I get people are passionate and prefer their guy but how many times that group of posters tried to tell us we were making a huge mistake, was equally hilarious and frustrating. My favorite was the poster who predicted Matthews would only score 120 career goals and be a 3rd liner, who also tore down Jack Hughes this offseason against Kakko.

It’s not even just Laine. Every year there’s a new player to compare Matthews to, and every year Matthews comes out on top.

Laine, Barzal, Petterson, Eichel (although in fairness eichel has really stepped up this year). I’m pretty sure I saw a couple people say Boeser was a better goal scorer too hahaha

 

[IPS]

Ah yes, the infamous "Finnish Five". Good times.

"The league has never seen a talent like Laine before. The Leafs foolishly passed on a generational talent because of their deficiency at center."

Holy f*** what a trip that was. Possibly the most overhyped prospect on HFBoards of all time all fueled by the collective hatred towards the Leafs.

 

[DanM]

It’s not even just Laine. Every year there’s a new player to compare Matthews to, and every year Matthews comes out on top.

Laine, Barzal, Petterson, Eichel (although in fairness eichel has really stepped up this year). I’m pretty sure I saw a couple people say Boeser was a better goal scorer too hahaha

Because they hope so badly to be right. The fact that we have one of the VERY top players in the league is hard for posters to deal with.

I just love it and drink their tears lol

 

[LeafsNation75]

 

[LeafsNation75]

"The league has never seen a talent like Laine before. The Leafs foolishly passed on a generational talent because of their deficiency at center."

Holy **** what a trip that was. Possibly the most overhyped prospect on HFBoards of all time all fueled by the collective hatred towards the Leafs.

Because they hope so badly to be right. The fact that we have one of the VERY top players in the league is hard for posters to deal with.

I just love it and drink their tears lol

In the end I think they hated that it was Toronto of all teams who were able to get the 1st overall pick and how Auston Matthews lived up to the hype, because it started right away with his 4 goal debut.

I also remember the Calder debate threads on the main board where anytime you posted a positive stat about Matthews, the "Finnish Five" would respond with no it's not true or it doesn't matter with why Laine was better and deserved the Calder. My favorite of their arguments was how Laine was 7 months younger and that would matter to the voters and it obviously did not.

 

[Stephen]

Great to see Matthews contending for the Rocket Richard, but it's also such a remarkable story how David Pastrnak seems to have a limitless ceiling himself. Sort of a Selanne of this era...

 

[LeafsNation75]

It’s not even just Laine. Every year there’s a new player to compare Matthews to, and every year Matthews comes out on top.

Laine, Barzal, Petterson, Eichel (although in fairness eichel has really stepped up this year). I’m pretty sure I saw a couple people say Boeser was a better goal scorer too hahaha

I do remember some Canucks fans saying how Boeser was a better goal scorer than Matthews, however that talk ended very quickly.

Barzal was only mentioned since he won the Calder a year after Matthews did, however that was only because he ended up with 85 points as a rookie and the Leafs haters always brought up that Matthews had 69 points in his rookie season. Although they did ignore Matthews 40 goals in his rookie season when he finished tied for 2nd in that category.