If there's something specific tickling the brain of Auston Matthews, and spurring him along through this late-season scoring binge, it's not totally clear what that is.
The Toronto Maple Leafs superstar sniper was pressing hard for 50 goals last week, however that feat seemed hardly fulfilling. Breaking Rick Vaive's single-season franchise record of 54 goals only a few nights later offered a moment worth enough to stop and savour, but that, too, appeared to be just another checkpoint on the path to where he's trying to go.
This week we'll see how he responds to hitting 50 (and 51) goals in 50 games, and becoming the first player to do so at any point in a season since Mario Lemieux in 1995-96.