Is Auston Matthews One of the Most Overrated Players in Recent History?

[MCR74]

The team is doing pretty well thus far in the playoffs, of course we have to have this negative faux argument to give the haters something to wax their bishops too lol

If the Leafs make the ECF, stay tuned for some very "creative" arguments.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Leaf Matthews alone! LEAF Matthews ALONE.

LEAVE HIM ALONE !!!!!!!!!

Washed Up 29 Year Old is matthews burner account

 

[Ianturnedbull]

For a 70 goal scorer he’s never scored 70

He's afraid to type "69" due to HF rules and policies.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Auston Matthews is a paper tiger.

For a 70 goal scorer, he doesn't score any goals when the pressure is on.
During the 4 nations cup, he wasn't even trying to score a goal against Canada, he kept deferring to Brady or missing the net.

He has 3 goals in his last 17 playoff games.
2 of those goals were complete flukes.

For being paid 13.5 Million, he is completely overrated, and can't overtake a game offensively like Draisaitl, MacKinnon, Kaprizov, McDavid, Kucherov, Rantanen, etc.

He's always failed to score when the pressure gets high.
25 Goals and 50 points in 60 career playoff games is a joke for someone paid 13.5M.
As well as 3 goals in his last 17 games, he has to be the most overrated player in the NHL.

More recently, he's trying to turn his game away from scoring, and, towards a defensive/Philip Danault type player.

He can overtake a game "offensively." Have you never seen him play a game? If a superstar is injured, do they always look like a superstar?

 

[Leafshater67]

Doesn't Marner have a poor performance in games5 though 7?

Dennis Maruk would like to talk to you

Marner does, yeah but Marner has been fantastic this year where Matthews has not. The coaching change seems to have lit a fire under the rest of the team except Matthews

 

[Opus]

Wait, what...overrated by whom??

I'll tell you who's severely overrated - Laine

 

[GrumpyKoala]

If a superstar is injured, do they always look like a superstar?

Insert SmilingDraisaitl.gif

 

[Menzinger]

Florida's top guys seem to be having a rather difficulty getting any offense going while he's on the ice. Not too shabby for being apparently overrated

 

[Reimannsum1988]

Wait, what...overrated by whom??

I'll tell you who's severely overrated - Laine

Most people think of Laine as a cap dump, even now after a 20 goal season, and Montreal fans are desperate to get rid of him.

He's a one-trick pony and not particularly good, but, if anything, he's underrated.

Matthews, on the other hand, is absolutely underrated due to the asinine narratives surrounding him and exasperation with Toronto media and fans resulting in negative overreactions from other fanbases.

 

[Bombshell11]

Depends who you ask

 

[Sideline]

This thread reminds me of when people used to ask if Ovechkin was a playoff choker.

Matthews plays an elite two-way game. He generates chances. He's had some terrible puck luck and bad luck playoff opponents. I'd take Matthews all day every day as my number one center ahead of anyone not named McDavid or Draisaitl.