Auston Matthews is LOVING Toronto & faces of the NHL 👀 | The Pat McAfee Show 

This is a great idea.

I'm not going to like your comment because it's currently at 34(AM)..

His second ever goal was absolutely disgusting, def deserves to be up there

Yeah they should show McDavid’s goals…much more amazing! Or MacKinnon.

They can't. The NHL and the team will claim the video the moment it becomes public.

Had to make up for Mcafee fucking up that McDavid led the league in goals last year not Mathews….

​@VanIsland69er as a Leafs fan I caught that.. he was the two years prior, but the shade thrown to McDavid there 😅😬 and AM didn't even correct him 🫣😆

Ngl, even as a leafs fan it's really funny that they managed to lose that game.

@@VanIsland69er I was wondering if Matthews was gonna correct him 😂

4 goals and a L

Stephen A Smith won’t touch hockey. At least Pat appreciates the sport and leads the charge.

100% agree!! It’s great exposure.

Very well said! THIS is how hockey players need to be interviewed.

He won't touch hockey because he knows he'll make himself look like more of a fool than he already is@@krakenhawkstratdude204

He just needs to have Biz on the show every week.

As A Canadian, unfortunately because he's American he'll likely be Placed beside A Canadian like Marner or Tavares or Reilly... But to the fans He will be Highly regarded and by a large margin of fans the greatest.

That part!

@@dylanevans7529 you can’t be serious? He’s easily the most popular leaf since Sundin, most talented player in franchise history hands down. JT will always be shit on (deserving or not) for his contract, Willy is loathed by boomers for existing, Marner is hated by a weird chunk of the fan base too, and Rielly will likely turn into a scapegoat again until spring

Kind of curious, how’d an American become a leafs fan?

​@@Pikabo0 Marner is on his level too. He's just focused on setting Matthews up like the good old playmaker he models himself after The best to ever do it, Gretzky Nylander might even be on Matthews level too, the Sweeds are nothing to sneeze at

Sens won that game in OT :/

​@@sasdsddsThat's what he said

@@jeffreycairns767 whoops I was thinking he was a Sens fan lol

No it wasn't it was last year. 2 seasons ago but it was 2022 which is last year

last year not last season, remember hockey seasons are 21-22, 22-23 etc.

Those traits go hand in hand with hockey players. They also don't waste their first checque on diamonds and Bentley's.

Go Leafs Go!

he'll hit better than the jays 💀

@@eggsbruhnadict4298 i'm pretty sure he singlehandedly cursed the jays by showing up to games lol

@@eggsbruhnadict4298 I’m still so mad about the WC series 😑

Which was on phaneuf? I remember him cooking EK65 and Mark Stone (along with I believe Neil) on his second ever goal

@@Pikabo0 goal 3 is right in his face

Good point.

Yes, but it's also the culture "name on the front, not on the back; don't stand out, team first, don't focus on building your personal brand, etc." It's slowly starting to change with the younger guys like Jack Hughes though give it five years and we'll see some of the swagger of the other leagues lol

@@kiroolioneaver8532 I hope not. I find the players from the other leagues to look thirsty... hockey is the only big sport left that seems respectable

Disagree. I know an NHL player that was raised in an average home. There wasn't alot of extra money available but every penny and time went towards his career. His sisters weren't happy and did without alot of things they wanted but that's the way it is in some families

@@ryandenton190 You gotta sell the product man it's the entertainment business and by necessity that's what's going to have to happen to keep the sport relevant. You're already seeing this with baseball and stars like Bryce Harper lol

The average salary of both leagues seems to be about 3 million a year. I would probably say there are more 2nd and 3rd strings in the NFL, but they dont get paid that much, while the higher end NFL players get substantially more than their elite NHL counterparts. Also, the endorsment and advertisments contracts for elite NFL players likely eclipses those of the NHL.

@Grayto not many of the average salary guys are going to be entitled. Those guys are probably more like hockey players than their much higher paid peers, because they're the guys tgat are most likely to ignore injury for fear of losing their jobs. The superstars in hockey usually remain humble. Listen to the highest paid guys in hockey talk. McDavid, Matthews, McKinnon, etc. They're all very humble. Some of that is due to the fact that if you combined all 3 of their salaries together, they wouldn't even crack the top 5 nfl contract values. Lamar makes $1M less this season than the top 7 NHL salaries this season.

I don't undertsand your point. Those are the average salaries from each league from what i can find. I agree that the higher end players don't make as much, but I believe the statistics indicate that the average player in NHL is better off. I also think injuries are a worse concern in the NFL, and the time in the league is shorter (3.3 years) vs the NHL (4.5). The numbers don't bear our that the NHL is poverty league compared to the glamorous NFL league. Im sure there is desperation for some lower-end players in both leagues.@@Qmocean

@Grayto who said anything about them being poverty? My point is that there aren't anywhere near as many high paid athletes, and the high paid athletes aren't making that much more than everyone else. The highest paid NHLer is $12.6M, in the NFL it's $80M. Both have similar minimums, kinda. The NHLs minimum is the same for everyone. NFL it climbs depending how many years they have played. That massive discrepancy is what leads to more guys having little to no humility. The NHL tends to have way less arrogant athletes than their higher paid counterparts. The amount of guaranteed money leads to more of them completely changing how they play. They get the bag and then shit the bed.

@Grayto in short. NHLers remain more humble because their superstars only make $12M not $40M-80M.

EVERY true hockey fan knows both

Ya I was very surprised also.

They are, but it's also true that the sport is largely played by well off white guys, which kinda sucks tbh. Toronto is the most diverse city on the planet, the crowds outside the arena during playoff games are from fucking everywhere, but you wouldn't really know it from the team. It's why a lot of kids from Muslim backgrounds (myself included) fell in love with Kadri so deeply; he was the first person who looked like us playing for our team. Papi's an inspiration for latino kids everywhere, i know a few people who started cheering for the wild and stars because Dumba and Jason Robertson are fillipino, hope his little brother can do the same for the blue and white. I love that the team's began to embrace it more and more in recent years, doesn't matter where you're from, you bleed blue and white.

I think he meant two years ago

Same. I'm a bigger fan of AM than I am of McDavid, but that shade there was unnecessary 😂🫣

if Mac wants to award him a third straight Rocket, who's Auston to disagree?

Exactly. No more baseball, football or basketball. They're all boring asf to watch but hockey is the best to play and watch.

@@jeffreycairns767 man I like my nfl but it can be boring so many whistles so many injuries and stoppages ... nhl changing rules latley doin that to hockey tho ... like these coaches challenges on offsides... refs get it right 95 percent of the time just let the game flow more and so many penalties these days it's great when there's no whistles and the boys are playing

Exactly! The other interviews put me to sleep.

Boring or not, pretty sure a Canadian interviewer would know he led the league in scoring 2 years ago. Last year he was tied for 14th.

@@heyimfrankandyou It's always the same thing. "nice goal in the 2nd period, tell us what you saw on that play".... lol

@@amac5875 one mistake didn't make it less entertaining imo. I just want to see more personality and excitement in our broadcasts in Canada. idk maybe I just watched too much hockey in my life and got bored with the what happens between periods lol

@@renzo2579 i've been saying this shit for decades now. i hate how robotic players are. show some godamn personality! that's why i absolutely love the move to TNT! too bad it's only once a week, unless it's something special like tonight's heritage classic.

Lol 🤡🥴

2 years prior yes.

leads all players in scoring sicne entering the league tbf. Hillarious that a 40g year is down for him

???

Not last year, but since entering the League he’s the leading goal scorer.

I thought the same, but technically he won it in 2021-22. 22 being lastyear, technically

Who did than if it wasn't him ? 😂

@@Playstation19999 McDavid with 64 goals

@@Playstation19999 McDavid ever hear of him?

Year before, not 3 years before

​@@jeffreycairns7672 years prior*

knowing auston, he'll propbably just steal it back and go the opposite way to score

@@Pikabo0 not in the second round 😂 😂