C Auston Matthews (2016, 1st, TOR) VIII

[arrbez]

Great player, or greatest player?

Discuss.

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[EDDIE20*]

Great player.

29 other teams would've loved to have drafted him. Anyone who says any different is a liar.

 

[dubey]

Might be the greatest player of his era when all is said and done

I don't think Eichel vs Matthews will be a competition. The debate will be McDavid vs Matthews.

 

[TheLeastOfTheBunch]

Great player.

Him being 19 before the season starts and ends prevents him from being the greatest.

 

[TheDoldrums]

Kinda cool. Youngest on the team.

 

[93LEAFS]

Kinda cool. Youngest on the team.

Need to see one how his zone-starts align. But 2 games is really not much to draw on. Either way, he is passing the eye-test and playing very well.

 

[thomast]

Absolute beast. Could be Peter Forsberg type of player in the future. He is that good.

 

[TMLife*]

Still can’t believe we got this guy, what a sensational talent.

Never was a doubt in my mind that he would go #1 overall.

 

[Ducks Nation*]

Just finished watching the last 2 shift by shift videos from the last 2 games, he is closer to McDavid than eichel.

 

[IAmBobo]

He's better than McDavid

 

[Polk High]

Matthews seems to think and process the game at a super high speed. He has caught many of his linemates off guard with those immediate one touch passes. It's pretty slick to watch.

 

[Purity*]

I'm gonna go ahead and say this again: Matthews has a set of hands that Laine can't touch.

When it comes to stick-handling and shiftiness with the puck Matthews does things that Laine just isn't capable of.

 

[ViewsFromThe6ix]

Kinda cool. Youngest on the team.

No surprise here.

Matthews plays a primarily heavy, puck possession game based on hard work along the boards, as well as using flash to create off the rush. Mult-dimensional attacker.

 

[al secord]

I looked inside his nostrils and I think I saw God.

 

[Oliewud]

He's good, but not generational. Expected more from him so far.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

He's good, but not generational. Expected more from him so far.

Kappa.

 

[WillTheThrill]

He's good, but not generational. Expected more from him so far.

Wow. Two pts in two games against the best competition he's ever faced and you expected more from him? Yikes.

 

[doorbag]

He's better than McDavid

Let's cool our jets here pal. Matthews is going to be an incredible player but that's quite a stretch.

 

[Semantics]

Matthews seems to think and process the game at a super high speed. He has caught many of his linemates off guard with those immediate one touch passes. It's pretty slick to watch.

Leafs also have another prospect who thinks and processes the game at a super high speed, and has caught many linemates off guard with one touch passes. Mitchell Marner. The next decade is going to be fun.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

His stickwork defensively has impressed me most. He's always ready batting pucks out of the air, lifting sticks, or making timely poke checks.

 

[McMatthews]

McDavid is the best hockey player I've ever seen.

Matthews isn't McDavid. Nobody will be.

Matthews is better than Eichel, though.

 

[Leafidelity]

I looked inside his nostrils and I think I saw God.

Elite air intake

 

[authentic]

The best thing about him isn't even that he's going to be a top end elite player, it's that he pretty much already is a top end elite player. Make no mistake about it, he's going to dominate sooner than later.

 

[TIGERCOOL]

Elite air intake

Totally underselling him. Generational air intake.

 

[Brewsky]

McDavid
Matthews
Eichel

In that order - Matthews has proven he's better than Eichel and obviously nobody touches McJesus.