Buffalo, ny – Auston Matthews scored into an empty network for 400. The target of his career in Toronto Maple Leafs‘ 4-0 victories over Buffalo Saber Tuesday evening.
Victory won the first title in the Atlantic in the Atlantic in Toronto and also introduced the star Maple Leafs Mitch Marner It achieves its career high with 100 points scoring with 4:21 on the left in regulation.
Maple Leafs secured the second seed of the Eastern Conference and opened the Play -off against their provincial opponent Ontario, The Ottawa Senators.
Matthews, an American and former selection No. 1 of the 2016 proposal, is the sixth fastest player who reaches 400, according to ESPN Research, who does in his 628 career game. This is six games faster than Alex OvechkinThe new NHL leader in the highest goals.
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“That means a lot. … In the end, it’s a team success, I think. It’s a team sport. That’s a lot,” Matthews said. “And just lucky it was a couple of my chopstick.”
It is the second time in the history of franchise, which Maple Leaf scored 400 with the club when Matthews joined Mats Sundin, who completed his term with 420. At some point in the beginning of next season, he should be healthy, bind John leclaira at all in all goals for American players.
Anthony Stolarzwho won the Stanley Cup with Florida Panthers Last season, she closed her first season in the Toronto network with shutdown and improved to 4-0-1 against Sabers. The previous two 31-year-old trips to Buffalo ended up in Shutouts-45-useful trip with Florida last season and 25-to-Anaheim trip in December 2021.
Toronto set a franchise record in one season with 25 victories on the road and overall claimed only their third division title. Toronto previously won the All-Canada North division during the season changed COVID-1921 and in 2000 there were also champions in the northeast.
“I feel really confident in this group. We put a lot of work during the season,” Matthews said. “Making a division was a big step for us, but we just want to continue moving forward.”
Coach Craig Berube, also in his first season with Maple Leafs, agreed with his captain.
“Buy-in is everything and they bought it,” he said of his team. “It starts with our group of leadership and it runs down. This is the lower limit.”
Associated Press contributed to this report.
