And of his 49 so far not a single one has been an empty netter, just ridiculous…

Im not Leafs fan, but I appreciate what he´s bringing to NHL.. Its amazing to see him scoring goals, even when he´s covered.. Hope he hits at least 70

I would say his assist on Bertuzzi's goal was pretty nuts. You could tell he was working things out and just waiting for the perfect angle to get the puck to go off Bertuzzi's stick. Unreal!

He makes it look so easy. Even his post goal celebrations are calm and collected. He reminds me of Steve Yzerman with his demeanor.

The fact he may be the first 70 goal scorer since Selanne is 92 is insane

The list of NHL players who had 2 back to back sets of Hatties in one season is literally 3 people long. Gretzky, Bossy, Matthews. Insane. As of the morning after that game, Matthews has more hat tricks this season than 59% of the players in the NHL have goals.

Not to mention the fact that he completed his hatty last night to give the Leafs 7 goals when the Ducks still only had 7 shots.

Man I love being able to watch him play on my favorite team every game

His one timer is definitely better this year but something that’s gone so underrated is Rielly, Nylander and Marners passing has been unreal this year. Always in his sweet spot when he wants it. What a treat it has been to watch Marner and Matthews together

That first goal was ridiculous. Carlsson was playing great defence and Matts made him look like Marty Marincin out there. Sick feed from Knies, too.

"We should have known when he scored four goals in his 1st game." Some people did. And they were laughed at by fans of other teams when they said it.

This guy has got to start getting some Hart attention. Im not saying he's a walk off favourite with the seasons Kuch and Mac are having but when you're near the top of hat-trick list dominated by Gretzky and Lemieux... you know its a special season.

and this guy's 26... hes not new to the league but hes starting his full career. next few years he will be deadly

It’s crazy that This Maple Leafs Team Don’t have A Stanley Cup Yet dame Matthew’s deserve it

He’s def the best goal scorer right now

AM34 IS ON 🔥🔥🔥 and let it be known he tied Mario for 6 hattys in a season

Dont go to a leafs game theres a high chance you lose your hat 🧢 Mattews is the goat of scoring 🐐

I remember a few months ago when a video was made about MacKinnon and him possibly being a good pick for the Hart trophy. And even though I'm an Avs fan and would love to see MacKinnon snag that trophy for his case, I think Matthews is definitely deserving of it for what he is doing this year with his scoring. It's incredible.

Bro your commenting is one of the best to listen to! Keep it up!

He will be the best goal scorer of his generation

Hopefully he can actually do this in the playoffs

I think that Knies, Marner, and Matthews line should stay together because they just click. Knies is the digger, Marner is the set-up man, and Matthews is the finisher. Marner is always looking for Matthews, and he makes the call if he likes the set-up. And passing,.....oh my goodness, Mitch delivers perfect passes. Those are 3 guys who know their roles and strive to execute those roles to the best of their ability. Reminds me of the Gaudereau, Tkachuk, and Lindstrom line in Calgary a couple of years ago.

By the end of his playing career, I'm pretty confident that Matthews name will be mentioned along with Dave Keon, Borje Salming, Wendel Clark, Doug Gilmour and Mats Sundin as among the greatest players to wear blue-and-white. His reputation for that alone is pretty much secure already. He wins a cup in a leaf uniform? No way he's not considered the single greatest Leaf in history.

I have to agree, it's been a number of years since I've watched any sort of hockey, growing up its always been my number 1 sport, but watching Matthews play on the ice and bury that puck in the net is really next-level hockey. Hope he can keep up the great momentum and continue bringing the tears of joy to his mom's face and fascinate all hockey fans with the sheer excitement and exhilaration that is NHL hockey.

I think it’s only been very recently that his one timer has been working. Previously, he always shot wide or not well placed. If he can consistently get his one timer on, it’s scary how many goals he can add to his tally

Give him the rocket richard trophy now!

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact Johnny is so consistent with his posting. I can’t remember the last time I’ve gone several day’s without good content being released from Johnny here, s/o to you man, keep it up, the content is appreciated!

Two years ago he said he was working on his one tees , boom after inserting it to his play he became a 40 goal guy to a 60 goal guy , crazy

After last year's down year battling the wrist injury his bounce-back to being the best goal scorer in a league that has so many snipers is incredible. The one-timer from the right side has been near unstoppable (today he misfired from that position). He seems destined to be a part of that group that includes Bossy, Hull, and Ovechkin. Perhaps Lemieux should be included, but perhaps not to the extent of Gretzky, I tend to see him as a playmaker who could score (and score a lot) rather than a pure goal scorer. It's a fun time to be a fan of the game with so much talent in the game.

This is all the proof you need that he was playing injured last season, and he still managed to put up 40, but as a Leaf fan, this is awesome and definitely history in the making, now some people are talking about him passing gretzky (or ovi when he hits it) scoring record, he might not get it, but I feel he'll be close, what do you think (btw I love your content man, keep up the great work!)

Special player

I like how he isn’t a hot dog… game tying goal, or first goal? A goal that gives a lead or OT? Sick celly. Oh we’re up 3? Lemme jus glide back to the bench respectfully. He’s a beast

if matthews gets 72 goals this season he would be tied with ovechkin for the same goals throughout 8 seasons, even though he has more goals per game the ovechkin ovechkin had played more games throughout less seasons, but if matthews can catch his pace by season wide then it's even crazier because oh how much less games he played, ovechkin played almost every game throughout thoes 8 season but matthew has so many injuries and still matching him is alien level talent

Great breakdown.. Impressive

Well said! Great video

Love what he’s and doing and I’m not even a laughs fan really hope he can keep up this production in his 30s like ovi. I genuinely hope he can because ovi only maintained his goal scoring for so long due to “ovi’s office”

When you look at the list of players with the most hat-tricks in a season, it's crazy to see him on there with pretty much all legends and there are no other players on that list since the mid 90's, almost 30 years ago.

bro 10 hattys in a season, TWO SEASONS IN A ROW WTF

Matthews setting up in the left-handed Ovie office has been an awesome addition to his game.

Watching the All Star Special and in interviews with his teammates one can see Matthews is a really nice guy and team first kind of guy. And watching him play I think part of his success is that he is a strong skater and almost impossible to knock off his feet.

It's been such a blast to watch.

Maple Leafs has so much amazing talent in their team... It's an absolute mystery to me how they were not able to achieve something great in playoffs yet...and I am not sure if they will achieve something this year either

That wrist fully healed now

48 goals in 52 games and he’s on pace for 74 goals after 53 team games

Great video. I’m trying to make videos like this

A Mexican heritage kid from Arizona doing this is bananas. Born in Cali I know but doesn't matter. This guy is bonkers

Not a Leafs fan but Matthews is without the best pure goal scorer in the league right now

It really seems like the NHL is hitting another level of offensive production from elite players. Matthews 60 goals in 2021-22, McDavid 60+ goals and 150+ points in 2022-23, Pastrnak 60+ goals in 2022-23, Matthews on pace for 70+ goals, Hughes and Makar on pace for 96 points, etc. Also the players who are stars but not among the best such as Nugent-Hopkins (104 points in 2022-23), Hyman (83 points in 2022-23, on pace for 52 goals in 2023-24) and Reinhart (98 point pace), and many other players having great offensive seasons. Right now is undoubtedly the best hockey I've seen from the NHL since I started watching.

As a lifelong Leafs fan and a bit of a historian on them, I’m not sure the fans are comprehending that not only is Matthews the best scorer in Leafs history, but he’s the best by an embarrassing amount. He’ll most likely catch Mats Sundin’s for the Leafs scoring record by next year, in 2/3 of the games. For a team as old as the leafs, they’ve never had an incredibly prolific scorer to much of any degree in the century they’ve been around, and Matthews is one hell of an explosive scorer to expose that.

Been a leafs fan My whole life It’s nice to have a legitimate superstar

I'm a Wings but I have to say that Matthews is so successful because of that badass mustache.😂

Matthews is the SUPERSTAR WE HAVE NEVER HAD HERE IN TORONTO... LEGEND!!!!

His shooting percentage is at his highest so far at a sick 21.3% but that's after the 2nd hatty. Hopefully he can keep it over 19-20% by the end of the season and in the play offs. Last season he had his second highest amount of shots in a year but his s% was at his lowest most likely because he wasn't healthy and wrist not a 100%.

..one Gordon Howe hat trick or scoring in the playoffs would be nice..

Best player in the world. He also had 2 assists last night for the goofs that say he doesn't pass. Sure assists are important but what's the absolute best way to Help your team win hockey games? Score fucking goals......Smd haters, you all wish he was on your team.

I love ALMOST everything about Matts. I just wish he used his size a little more. The guy is a monster and could truck-stick dudes if he wanted to. A little more snarl to his game would make him very close to the perfect player.

Maybe we’ll get past the second round for once

old timer here. on average and in my opinion, players today are bigger, faster, and more talented than back in my day. even more dramatic is the improvement in the skill of goalies. today they can skate well. add their size, coaching, and equipment, and it is tough to score. i bet some of these skaters today could score at will in the way back. but, there is a big deficiency today in hockey basics, positional play is terrible and no one knows how to either throw a check or tie a guy up effectively. half of today's goals are scored by guys standing untouched in front of the net. i was a small center and i was really afraid of getting knocked on my can just as the shot was coming in from the point. i was always going to get thumped in front of the net. geesh, we even checked more in front of the net in summer hockey. today's players are soooo talented, but the game is almost no check pond hockey. beer leagues are more ferocious than an NHL game. i have noticed over the past few years that the teams that play solid positional hockey and check well seem to be in the later rounds of the playoffs.

at first i was questioning the 13.5 million dollar contract but matthews is holding up

Ovi will be the first to 900 . AM34 if he stays healthy will be the first to 1000 . Heard it here first and crazy thing is it's not that bold of a prediction .

Please keep making leaf content

Matthews is in elite company, like Mario & Wayne

I'm a die hard Leafs fan and I love Matthews... but all the goals and all the hat tricks in the world mean nothing if we can't get a Stanley Cup. We need a closer.

What's the record for goals to assists ratio? He's gotta be high up on that one..

I don't care if the Leafs win or lose, its just so much fun watching Mathews!!

not to mention he leads the league in posts hit with like 15+

Lightning fan but can't disagree with any of this... 🤷🏻‍♂He has been lights out this season...

According to most non leaf fans Matthews would be nothing without Mitch marner 🤣🤣🤣

Incredible performance, and it's been great to see. He probably would have hit 50 last night if Keefe kept putting him out there, he's that kind of hot right now and the Ducks looked awful. Don't think Matthews saw the ice much if at all in the 3rd; think he was under 15 minutes of ice for the night?

Can we get a vid about the Jets-Canuks game please? Great vid as always

He saw Pasta and McDavid break 60 last year and thought “yeah I can top that”

He's on pace to be the next Mike Modano... Perhaps even the American GOAT.

I mean since day 1 his goal tallies have been very comparable to Alex Ovechkin’s early career years

he's a beast

Auston 3:16 says, I JUST GOT ANOTHER HAT TRICK 💙🤍

He is among the best, but might very well get passed everyone

dude is 26 and he has the 4th most goals on this original six hockey club

100 goals this year including post season

Marner do not forget about the passin assassin' marner

PAPI IS GETTING 70+ THIS YEAR!

one word....GOAT

Let's just hope he saves some for the playoffs this year. For once,

0:49 TOE DRAG RELEASE

Makes scoring look so easy

Hahah starts off with…Look… I know I’ve been talking to much about the Leafs but

Imagine what this kids legacy could be if he would show up during the playoffs

He's pretty good

The GLOAT a lot of Leaf fans don't realise what we are witnessing. I said it at the beginning of the season we might be seeing a pissed-off healthy 34.

He's the BOMB! 🏒💛

MVP

People don't talk about the work Matthews puts in back in his own end as well. He's bought into becoming a complete player instead of just banging his stick for the one timer all the time.

Now all he needs to do is replicate this scoring in the playoffs

What about Tavares and his 9 even strength goals this season? Where's the love?? 🤣

Best American goal scorer ever

"Mutant" courtesy Mr. Steve Dangle

Pardon my ignorance, but is the reason why Gretzky’s 90+ goal season hasn’t been touched, is because the league is more difficult? Obviously shooting has changed, but is there a reason most aren’t hitting that crazy of a number? Thanks. Sorry guys, I’m just getting into hockey and am unaware.

and they're still a borderline playoff team.

He will be close to the top at the end... depends if he slows down at 35-37, or if he can put a few 60+ seasons together to make up for an eventual downfall. He will break 900... Guys gonna be in top 100 before end of next year and hes what.... 26 or 27?

I think he ends up with about 69/70. Which is unreal in today's NHL.

How likely do you think it is that he threatens Gretzky's goal record? He's gotta be in the top 5 for sure by the end of his career (barring injury issues and lockouts)