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What's wrong with Auston Matthews?

CarltonTheBear said:
Yeah I'm pretty sure nobody has done this.
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I haven't seen that anywhere
There's a general acknowledgement that he has not been the player we saw last season due to injury.
His career ppg is 1.15 which matches his ppg for this season.
His shooting is off and skating is off, etc but not that far off - not 3rd line center off.
During the deadline, I was having trouble finding available 3rd line centers who scored .5ppg and won 50% of their faceoffs. Matthews 1.15ppg and 57% faceoff win% is a little bit above that ...
 
I have no idea what's been going on with him but he looked a lot more like his old self last night. I don't put too much stock in the Calgary game as they pretty much suck, but he more than held his own against one of the best players in the league last night. Fingers crossed that it continues. Now the other lines, not feeling so good about those right now...
 
Ozzie said:
Whats wrong with Matthews now or over the past 8 years?

Whats wrong with Matthews over the past 8 years is he normally is ambivalent and was coddled in an organization that gave him top pay without demanding perseverance towards winning. That is, winning wasn't a "must" in the culture. So whenever situations require that extra 5% to persevere over opponents, he and his teammates can't summon up the extra drive.

But the pay is still tops in the league. The sponsorships are still tops in the league. The fan adulation is tops in the league.

Yet the team results don't match that. And others of Matthews ilk have carried the team on their back to win series after series. Which Matthews has not done.

Yet.
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When you give out NTC and no move clauses like candy at haoolwe'en, the no accountability is built in
 
KW Sluggo said:
When you give out NTC and no move clauses like candy at haoolwe'en, the no accountability is built in
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NTCs are fine. NMCs? Never again.
If the Leafs want to build a future with real flexibility, they need to draw a hard line: no more no-move clauses. Full stop. You can give a guy a limited no-trade to offer some peace of mind, but the team needs the ability to pivot when things go sideways. A 10-team list keeps the door cracked open — players get some control, but they also know the situation isn’t locked in stone. That’s how you build a contender: leverage, not handcuffs.
 
Zee said:
NTCs are fine. NMCs? Never again.
If the Leafs want to build a future with real flexibility, they need to draw a hard line: no more no-move clauses. Full stop. You can give a guy a limited no-trade to offer some peace of mind, but the team needs the ability to pivot when things go sideways. A 10-team list keeps the door cracked open — players get some control, but they also know the situation isn’t locked in stone. That’s how you build a contender: leverage, not handcuffs.
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All the high end guys will always get NMCs. That's standard practice now. What you don't do is give NTCs to your secondary players like Domi, Kampf, Jarnkrok.
 
cabber24 said:
Why don’t we get an injurry listing like every other team in the league does post playoffs? I guess he was fine and just a overpaid loser
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The NHL is weird this way compared to other leagues. Nick Jensen just had surgery for "lower body issue".
 
mr grieves said:
Who else got them as RFAs?
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McDavid, Crosby, Malkin, Pasta, Barkov, B Tkachuk, Stamkos, Hedman, Tavares, Toews, Kane, Getzlaf, Perry all had NMCs in year 5, the final year for most, of their 2nd deal. Malkin had a NMC in all 5 years. Tavares signed a 6 year deal and had protection the last 2. McD/Tkachuk got theirs in years 5-8. Marner/Pasta/Barkov protection in years 5,6. Matthews in year 5. Willy only had a M-NTC in year 6 of his deal so Dubas only handed out 2 NMCs in years 5 to the Leafs elite, again pretty normal for your high end stars.
 
Guilt Trip said:
McDavid, Crosby, Malkin, Pasta, Barkov, B Tkachuk, Stamkos, Hedman, Tavares, Toews, Kane, Getzlaf, Perry all had NMCs in year 5, the final year for most, of their 2nd deal. Malkin had a NMC in all 5 years. Tavares signed a 6 year deal and had protection the last 2. McD/Tkachuk got theirs in years 5-8. Marner/Pasta/Barkov protection in years 5,6. Matthews in year 5. Willy only had a M-NTC in year 6 of his deal so Dubas only handed out 2 NMCs in years 5 to the Leafs elite, again pretty normal for your high end stars.
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Facts schmacts.
 
cabber24 said:
Why don’t we get an injurry listing like every other team in the league does post playoffs? I guess he was fine and just a overpaid loser
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Is it really any of our business? It's not and say Matthews has back issues, that will never go away likely so why tell your opponents about it? He didn't miss 15 games for nothing. Clearly he was hurt most of the year.

Just saw this little tidbit.....enough said.

He had a small run-in with a member of the media that was asking why he felt the need to keep his injury to himself, and he replied quickly with, “Because it is my right.”
 
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