That's why they're still winning games with him injured ehYou need to stop making excuses. Leafs were The LAST place team in the nhl the year Matthews was drafted. He played on a line with 2 other rookies and led them to the playoffs, on a team with 7 other rookies (Hyman, brown, Marner, carrick, Zaitsev, nylander, Soshnkkov) he was the one other teams focused on. If all you’re looking at are points than you truly don’t understand how monumental what Matthews actually did.
This site is too quick to discredit what Matthews and the leafs did.
No one gave the leafs a chance to be relevant that year and Matthews made sure they were.
In football you don't get an assist if.you block someone. In basketball you only get an assist IF you are the most recent person to pass it AND it has to lead.to a score within a few seconds. If you pass it and the guy dribbles for 5 seconds the drives and lays it in you didn't help the play. The whole reason for an assist is supposed to be you directly contributed to the team scoring. You can get an assist if your teammate shoots it and hits you in the head and it bounces to your teammate then they gather it skating for 15 seconds before shooting it and bouncing off a goalie pad and another teammate shoots it off an opponents skate and it goes in. That gets you a well earned point when basically no one on your team did anything to be offensive there.This is silly. An entire play can be created by the player getting a secondary assist. A goal can also be an easy tap in.
Yeah i agree far from the only reason obviously but i understood it as if that post claimed that if you switch goalies they would make they would make the playoff... perhaps as islanders is very deep offensively who knows anywaysHe is, but to say the only reason we're making the playoffs is because of him is just wrong.
Leafs are a real good team, really deep offense, average defense, and a top ten goalie is why we're a top ten team in the league, not solely because of Andersen.
So 40 goals for an 18 year old kid on a terrible team with below-average linemates is a much more impressive situation then barzel playing with decent linemates and racking up assists.
More important things then points for individual players. Look at say the blue jackets. 100^pts last year as a team 4th in the league and had 1 60pt player. Every player contributes and points spread evenly and then play22 shut down defense. When teams have guys with that many points they also give up that many normally because most 60pt guys aren't shut down players haha. They are much improved this year but look at who the top linemen were.... He was stuck with pre the Reilly becoming a legit top 4... now he has Hainsy at least .How was TOR terrible? Five players scored 60+ points.
With all these polls comparing players having great seasons to Leaf players, it must be fair to assume that many Leaf players are the measuring stick by which good players are evaluated? (Especially since many of these polls are started by non-Leaf fans.)
So let's not get too upset by the differing opinions on here. Every time I see a player doing phenomenally well being put into a poll against a Leaf, I take that as a compliment.
We’re talking about his rookie year NOT this year.That's why they're still winning games with him injured eh
So you think he got worse and less important this year? Is he on the decline?We’re talking about his rookie year NOT this year.
I don’t know what your agenda against Matthews is but this is about rookie seasons. I can argue with you about the other stuff but stay focused on the original question.So you think he got worse and less important this year? Is he on the decline?
Barzal has more points, but also had better linemates. Matthews played with 2 other rookies, but scored 40 goals. Too close to call.
I think this is more of a poll because we are comparing the top rookie scorer from last year to the top rookie scorer this year. Also, i think a lot of polls with leaf players are started because their players always end up in other players threads and the debate begins.
No agenda. I just think there are better arguments than Matthews led his team to the playoffs when the Isles would be in the playoffs if they even had league average goaltending.I don’t know what your agenda against Matthews is but this is about rookie seasons. I can argue with you about the other stuff but stay focused on the original question.
That's why they're still winning games with him injured eh