Tuesday 20 December 2016

The Auston Matthews Dilema

Yesterday Auston Matthews scored his 15th goal of the season making him the goal leader of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Sadly, we lost. Watching the game, I couldn't help but notice that it seemed like everytime Matthews' scores, we lose. I did a bit of research and the stats I found were shocking.

Auston Matthews scored in 11 games this season. Of those 11 games, we won 2. That means that we only win 18% of the games he scores in. THAT'S HORRENDOUS. Even the game where he had a 4 goal game wasn't enough to bring a victory to the team. Compare that to Mitch Marner's numbers. He scored in 7 games, and of those 7, we won 6 of them. that's 86%.

Now ask yourself why? Well let's see if it's because of the teams they played.

Auston Matthews scored against:

  • Ottawa (Andersen)
  • Tampa Bay (Bishop)
  • New Jersey (Schneider)
  • Washington (Holtby)
  • Edmonton (Talbot)
  • Vancouver (Miller)
  • Boston (Rask)
  • San Jose (Jones)
  • Arizona (Smith)
Mitch Marner scored against:
  • Boston (Rask)
  • Buffalo (Nilsson)
  • Vancouver (Miller)
  • Philadelphia (Mason)
  • Nashville (Rinne)
  • Florida (Luongo)
  • Arizona (Smith)
It obviously isn't the goalie situation because both of them score against elite goalies so what is it? What makes Auston Matthews so unlucky?

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