“The Toronto Maple Leafs will never win the Stanley Cup with Auston Matthews on the roster.” “Auston Matthews isn’t the kind of player a team needs to win in the playoffs.” These are the types of comments you might come across these days when browsing through the offseason hockey chatter.
Makes perfect sense to me. Why would the Toronto Maple Leafs want a guy who has won the Calder Trophy, Hart, Ted Lindsay, and two Rocket Richards? And scored 60 goals the season before last? The thinking seems to be that “he hasn’t led the Leafs to the Cup yet, so obviously he can’t”.