Athletistic / Hockey. The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime last night in an NHL regular season home game with a score of 3:2. Leafs forward Auston Matthews has reached a major milestone.
The American scored a goal in the match against the Penguins. The goal was Matthews’ 65th this NHL season. According to this indicator, Auston repeated the record of the 21st century, which belongs to the Russian forward of the Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin. In the 2007/2008 season, the Russian scored 65 goals.
Note that Auston Matthews has five matches left to score at least one goal and deprive Ovechkin of the 21st century record.
By the age of 26, Auston Matthews had scored 364 goals. Alexander Ovechkin, 38, has 851 accurate shots in the NHL, becoming the second sniper in league history.
Source: Sport
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