MOSCOW — The last time we checked, Auston Matthews was still 18 years old.
Judging by the Justin Bieber-inspired wardrobe he was wearing while lounging around his team’s hotel on Friday — tight-fitting pants with intentional rips in the thighs, a loose-fitting T-shirt and shockingly white sneakers — he looks it.
On the ice, however, it seems the American centre's age is ever-changing.
With each passing game here at the world hockey championship, Matthews has seemingly aged a year. He might have looked like a in-over-his-head teenager in a 5-1 loss to Canada in his tournament debut, but after scoring the only goals for the U.