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Nylander: Matthews is picking goalies apart
Though buoyed by games played in the North Division, NHL goal-scoring leader Auston Matthews, who missed one game earlier this season with an upper-body injury, has a league-best .94 goals per game.
TSN.ca Staff Auston Matthews scores on Marcus Hogberg , Getty Images
After finishing one goal back of sharing the Rocket Richard Trophy last season, Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews has gotten off to a torrid start this season, scoring 16 goals in just 17 games.
Matthews added two more goals to his league-leading total in Thursday s 7-3 win over the Ottawa Senators and extended his current point streak to 12 games.
Rival in Focus: Washington Capitals by Bill Meltzer @BillMeltzer / philadelphiaflyers.com
Somewhat akin to the Philadelphia Flyers rivalry with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Philadelphia club s clashes with the Washington Capitals were far too lopsided in the Flyers favor in the early years to be considered much of a rivalry at all. By 1982, however, the Caps began to emerge as a solid NHL club and there started to be more at stake in the standings. By the time the teams started to face off against one another in the playoffs and games between the teams became physical, chippy contests, the teams couldn t stand the sight of one another.
Sloppy hockey is the name of the game early in NHL season
Sloppy is the term being used all over the league to describe play in the first two weeks of the season. After no exhibition games and no action at all for seven teams in the past 10 months there have been plenty of odd-man rushes and mistakes, with six goals a game being scored on average.
The Canadian Press Arizona Coyotes Nick Schmaltz and Anaheim Ducks Max Jones , The Canadian Press
With an outbreak delaying the Dallas Stars opener, Rick Bowness got to watch a lot of hockey in the first couple of nights of the NHL season. It wasn t a coach s dream.