Is Matthews the worst playoff performer ever?

[bert]

Watch the interview with the Canes GM on the CJ show i think it was when he explicitly states this.

We have it right from Rantanen and his agents mouth there was no agreement on a deal they never spoke to him.

 

[Oilslick941611]

We have it right from Rantanen and his agents mouth there was no agreement on a deal they never spoke to him.

Brind'Amour: Canes should have known Rantanen wouldn't sign

Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour suggested Monday that the organization should have been certain Mikko Rantanen was willing to sign long term before making a trade to acquire him from the Colorado Avalanche in January."Mikko was the only one that I've been associated with that...

www.thescore.com

it appears i remember it wrong.


It doesn't change my opinion on him though. The very nature of professional sports and professional jobs is you put your pants on and go to work to get the job done. Not mope around.

 

[HockeyVirus]

34 gets the pass ... I just dont get it for the past 7 years

No pass. They are both garbage, Marner is worse.

 

[SI90]

This is actually insane and I didn’t even realize it.

 

[Tuna99]

Toronto has the worst fans in the NHL and they prove that every single home game

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

This is actually insane and I didn’t even realize it.

Nic Robertson, who has been a healthy scratch for the majority of the playoffs, has more career goals in Round 2 than Matthews.

 

[NVious]

Nic Robertson, who has been a healthy scratch for the majority of the playoffs, has more career goals in Round 2 than Matthews.

Kasperi Kapanen who was basically an AHLer at the start of the year has more goals in 1 2nd round game than Auston Matthews does in 10 2nd round games.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Kasperi Kapanen who was basically an AHLer at the start of the year has more goals in 1 2nd round game than Auston Matthews does in 10 2nd round games.

I like this game.

AJ Greer, who is a fringe 4th liner, has more goals in Round 1 than Auston Matthews does in his career.

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

Nic Robertson, who has been a healthy scratch for the majority of the playoffs, has more career goals in Round 2 than Matthews.

Kasperi Kapanen has scored more career Round 2 goals. He has played 29 minutes in the 2nd round in his career.

Damn, beaten to it.

 

[Gravity]

Even if he has an injured wrist and cannot shoot, he can hit, be involved in the forecheck and set up plays for his teammates. You wear the C ffs, be an example to your teammates.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Kasperi Kapanen who was basically an AHLer at the start of the year has more goals in 1 2nd round game than Auston Matthews does in 10 2nd round games.

I thank the blues for waiving him. Decent trade off for Holloway, Kapanen scores the goal that gets us into the WCF while Holloway had a first round exit and missed all the games with injury, typical for him.

 

[Juxta Position]

I've seen lots of people speculate that McDavid will sign in Toronto as a UFA, but I'm not sure if any of them are sane. Personally I find the idea rather preposterous.

Because for some weird reason, mostly due to undeserved arrogance, I believe, Leafs fans think every superstar Ontario-born player will sign in Toronto as soon as they have the chance. the reality is that only Tavares has done that in the last 30 years.

some of those types of players do end up in Toronto, though...usually when they are 35+ years old, way past their primes, and kinda useless. (Marleau, Thornton, Lindros, Nolan, etc)

 

[Frosty415]

He refuses to take wrist shots, which is how he scored 69 goals. He went to Germany this season to get it looked at.

I’m assuming he needs surgery. He isn’t on his usual spot on the PP because he can’t shoot. You’ll notice he only sets up at the point or the circle for one timers, which he’s never done before and isn’t good at.

Don't you get tired of always making excuses for him?

 

[Sasha Orlov]

He refuses to take wrist shots, which is how he scored 69 goals. He went to Germany this season to get it looked at.

I’m assuming he needs surgery. He isn’t on his usual spot on the PP because he can’t shoot. You’ll notice he only sets up at the point or the circle for one timers, which he’s never done before and isn’t good at.

Maybe they can give him a heart transplant while they’re at it

 

[Divine]

Don't you get tired of always making excuses for him?

I don’t enjoy bashing on a guy who everyone knows is playing injured. If he wasn’t missing games, in Germany getting treatment, and wasn’t taken off his spot on the PP because he couldn’t shoot then I have no problem with the fair criticism.

Laughing at a guy who’s injured, and everyone’s known he’s injured isn’t my thing.

He has the ability to play well and still contribute without shooting well, but some people know he can’t shoot well so you’ll notice all the criticism is on his goal total and not his point total, or faceoffs, or defence. Very intentional hatred of a player.

 

[Ol' Jase]

 

[bert]

Brind'Amour: Canes should have known Rantanen wouldn't sign

Carolina Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour suggested Monday that the organization should have been certain Mikko Rantanen was willing to sign long term before making a trade to acquire him from the Colorado Avalanche in January."Mikko was the only one that I've been associated with that...

www.thescore.com

it appears i remember it wrong.


It doesn't change my opinion on him though. The very nature of professional sports and professional jobs is you put your pants and go to work to get the job done. Not mope around.

Your opinion is based on ignoring real life and real time variables. So maybe if you want to actually understand there are human elements to it and that its not a video game and they are not robots then you can wrap your head around it.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I don’t enjoy bashing on a guy who everyone knows is playing injured. If he wasn’t missing games, in Germany getting treatment, and wasn’t taken off his spot on the PP because he couldn’t shoot then I have no problem with the fair criticism.

Laughing at a guy who’s injured, and everyone’s known he’s injured isn’t my thing.

He has the ability to play well and still contribute without shooting well, but some people know he can’t shoot well so you’ll notice all the criticism is on his goal total and not his point total, or faceoffs, or defence. Very intentional hatred of a player.

Has he been injured his entire playoff career? Because you're acting as though this is the only year he's struggled in the playoffs, and it's due to injury.

 

[Divine]

Has he been injured his entire playoff career? Because you're acting as though this is the only year he's struggled in the playoffs, and it's due to injury.

Just the last 2.

Matthews wasn’t in his prime from when he entered the league in his first year. He gets criticized for making the playoffs as a teenager and not producing as a teenager. Most players don’t make the playoffs for a few years until they’re more developed.

He’s been better in the playoffs since entering his prime but the best version of him hasn’t been healthy in the playoffs aside from the first 2 games last year.

 

[BeranekAndNeck]

Just the last 2.

Matthews wasn’t in his prime from when he entered the league in his first year. He gets criticized for making the playoffs as a teenager and not producing as a teenager. Most players don’t make the playoffs for a few years until they’re more developed.

He’s been better in the playoffs since his prime but the best version of him hasn’t been healthy in the playoffs aside from the first 2 games last year.

Yeah, no. Injury excuses aren't going to cut it year after year after year. It's a problem between the ears for Auston Matthews and will rightfully continue to dog him until he figures out how to play at the intensity required of him in the post-season.

 

[elmaco]

I’ve seen enough.. Shoeless Auston Matthews is throwing the series

He looks bored, like "cant wait for that Friends marathon on netflix tonight".

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Just the last 2.

Matthews wasn’t in his prime from when he entered the league in his first year. He gets criticized for making the playoffs as a teenager and not producing as a teenager. Most players don’t make the playoffs for a few years until they’re more developed.

He’s been better in the playoffs since entering his prime but the best version of him hasn’t been healthy in the playoffs aside from the first 2 games last year.

This just seems like a lot more excuses for subpar performance. "He was young" and "he's injured now that he's at his best" seem convenient ways to wave away a disappointing performance.

I just don't understand why fans would defend this. I'd be royally pissed if after 9 years of Crosby's career, every single playoff has been an early exit because Crosby never found another gear and was routinely outproduced by his peers.

No one expects a player to be dominant every single playoff run. Even the best have their occasional "duds". But over the course of 9 years, more than half of those years should have shown some sort of playoff domination and Matthews never has.

 

[Divine]

Yeah, no. Injury excuses aren't going to cut it year after year after year. It's a problem between the ears for Auston Matthews and will rightfully continue to dog him until he figures out how to play at the intensity required of him in the post-season.

Is it though? His playoff stats aren’t bad. He’s been around PPG nearly every playoffs except his second year.

Usually he leads both teams in scoring while being one of the best faceoff players and dominant defensively.

People are upset at him for not scoring more goals. Lots of players who are around PPG in the playoffs are praised here, but not Matthews.

 

[hamzarocks]

The actual worse playoff performing star statistically that I have watched is Tyler Seguin

His career playoffs stats are disastourous and he has sacked since his teenage years

 

[Kiekura]

Matthews being injured right now is not the point.

The point is that every year he folds/sucks. When it matters the most, he disappears. Same thing happens with other core 4 members. And if your defense is that he has been injured almost every year, then it does not make it any better.