Cause I watch the same games as you and Matthews is about as un clutch as it gets.
That whole tournament the “best goal scorer in the world” didn’t pot a single one even against Finland or Sweden.
Matthews 48pts in 55 games in his playoff career, only one 2nd round appearance and it was a gentleman’s sweep. Would be hard to do worse than that for a former mvp.
Tkachuk is very very hard to play against, gets in opponents heads, has a good shot still, gets in all the dirty areas, is an actual leader. Got 3 goals in the four nations here and almost the clincher to put him at a goal per game while doing lots of other stuff Matthews doesn’t do. I find Matthews very 1 dimensional and when he’s not scoring he’s not doing his part. He had a good game last night and could argue he was the best forward on the American side but even still the guy didn’t score. In a quick tournament like that and not having your captain even score once is a big problem
He shouldn’t be captain at the next four nations, Brady Tkachuk, Matthew Tkachuk or Quinn Hughes should be captain then because you know they’ll bring it.
If Brady Tkachuk is anything like Matthew (big time playoff performer) you’d be crazy not to take that over a 1 dimensional hot and cold goal scorer in a quick 7 game series