On Thursday, the Toronto Maple Leafs held their annual community outdoor practice at Toronto City Hall. While you might usually think, “Oh, that’s cool. Their annual outdoor practice. Neat.” I’m here to let you know it was even cooler than you think.
By Elyse Bailey 4 months ago
Pheonix Copley’s new three-year, $3.3 million deal from Monday is looking rather diminutive.
Tuesday afternoon, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced they’d locked up generational center Auston Matthews on a five-year, $58.17 million deal.
Rumors of the impending deal were first reported by Pierre LeBrun.
By Julia Karron 4 months ago
In an effort to promote the All-Star Game, the NHL challenged some of the best players in the game if they could do something extraordinarily stupid.
With a box of ping pong balls strapped to their back, the players were asked to get them out. The caveat was they could not use their hands.
The result was a lot of unintentional air grinding. Let’s review.
(Ethan, if you’re reading this, please cover your eyes now.)
By Ian Oland 4 months ago
The NHL is back from Christmas break and it already had some news that concerns Washington Capitals fans.
Auston Matthews (Atlantic), Nathan MacKinnon (Central), Alex Ovechkin (Metropolitan), and Connor McDavid (Pacific) will be the captains of their respective divisions and have earned the first roster spots for the 2019 NHL All-Star Game, which will be held January 26 in San Jose. Each player received the most votes in their divisions from fans.
By Ian Oland 5 months ago
This stick save by Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen may end up being the best save of the 2018 NHL playoffs.
You have to see it to believe it.
Next Saturday’s Stadium Series game will be short one superstar. Months after promotions including Alex Ovechkin and Auston Matthews, the latter will have to sit the game out.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have announced center Auston Matthews is expected to miss at least ten days due to a shoulder injury suffered during Thursday’s 4-3 shootout win over the New York Islanders.
By Cara Bahniuk 1 year ago
Leafs superstar Auston Matthews made national headlines several weeks ago after making like a ref and pointing to the net after scoring. Matthews had a goal wiped out a shift before due to goaltender interference. So he scored again minutes later and made sure everyone in the entire arena knew it was a good goal.
Matthews repeated the goal celebration with Jack Eichel at the NHL All-Star Game, and now I’m happy to report you can do the celly now as Matthews on NHL18 too. During the most recent NHL18 roster update, video game developers assigned a previously created custom celebration to Digi Auston and it’s great.
Check it out.
As soon as it was revealed that Wes McCauley would be one of the referees in the 2018 All-Star Game, hockey fans hoped that there would be a goal review so the dramatic official could show off his mic skills.
They got their wish.
Like Alex Ovechkin before him, Auston Matthews needed only one NHL game to cement himself as the league’s newest superstar. Matthews scored four goals in his NHL debut. He’d punctuate his rookie season with 40 goals, an unlikely playoff appearance, and the Calder Trophy.
This year, Matthews is somehow even better and on pace to eclipse his career highs set in 2016-17. Wednesday, the same day the Leafs forward was named to his second consecutive All-Star Game, Matthews had a highlight so unbelievable it seemed CGI’d.
But it’s not. I can assure you this is 100% real.
We all know Auston Matthews is good at hockey. During his NHL debut against the Ottawa Senators last year, he scored four goals in one game. Matthews’s teary-eyed mother wasn’t the only one feeling heavy emotions that night.
Craig Anderson, who was the Senators goaltender that evening, probably would have chosen to be anywhere else but in that net by the end of that game.
By Cara Bahniuk 2 years ago
