Auston Matthews

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Auston Matthews
Date of birth 17th September 1997
place of birth San Ramon , California , USA
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position center
number # 34
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2016 , 1st round, 1st position
Toronto Maple Leafs
Career stations
2013-2015 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2015-2016 ZSC Lions
since 2016 Toronto Maple Leafs

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Auston Taylour Matthews (born September 17, 1997 in San Ramon , California ) is an American - Mexican ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League since July 2016 . He is considered one of the outstanding talents in world ice hockey and was selected as the first overall draft pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft by the Maple Leafs.

Career

youth

Auston Matthews was born the son of a Mexican and an American in San Ramon in the San Francisco Bay Area , but only two months after his birth he moved with his family to Scottsdale , Arizona and grew up there. Because of this, he has both US citizenship and Mexican citizenship. As a child, he attended the games of the Phoenix Coyotes , which were only moved from Winnipeg to Arizona a year before he was born before he began playing ice hockey himself at the age of six. In his youth he went through the junior departments of the Arizona Bobcats before he was accepted into the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory in the United States, at the beginning of the 2013/14 season . From then on, the attacker was part of the U17 and U18 national teams of the USA and took part in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL).

He won the bronze medal with the team at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 , before becoming world champion with the U18 a little later . The team repeated this success the following year , with Matthews standing out with eight goals and seven assists and was subsequently named the most valuable player and best attacker of the World Cup. He also took part in the 2015 U20 World Cup at the age of 17 , where the team finished 5th. In addition, in his second and final year in the NTDP, he scored 55 goals and a total of 117 points scorer across all competitions , setting a record held by Patrick Kane since 2006 (52 goals, 102 points). He also played a preseason game with the senior team of his home country for the World Cup in 2015, making him the first player in the dress of the USA, who plays for the national team before it is available for the NHL Entry Draft.

ZSC Lions

Auston Matthews in the ZSC Lions jersey

Matthews was two days too young for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , in which , according to Scouts , he would probably have been drafted with one of the first three voting rights. In this respect, he had to "bridge" a year, where he decided against Canadian junior or US college ice hockey and instead switched to the Swiss National League A (NLA) to the ZSC Lions . As a result, at the beginning of the 2015/16 season, he is already gaining his first professional experience and will meet significantly older opponents. In addition, his move made him the youngest NLA foreigner of all time. In his first 14 league games in Switzerland, he scored ten goals and six assists. At the turn of the year 2015/16 he again took part in the U20 World Cup and won the bronze medal with Team USA, while he himself was elected to the All-Star Team and together with the Finn Patrik Laine was the top scorer (7) of the tournament. A few weeks later he won the Swiss Ice Hockey Cup with the Lions . Matthews finished the regular season of the NLA with 46 points from 36 games and was voted “Newcomer of the Year” by the Swiss press as well as the All-Star Team of the NLA. He also achieved second place in the election for most valuable player by receiving six and two fewer votes than the winner Pierre-Marc Bouchard from coaches and team captains . After the season he took part in the 2016 World Cup with Team USA and led the team that reached fourth place in goals (6) and scorer points (9; together with Dylan Larkin ).

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthews in the Jersey of the Maple Leafs (2017)

Matthews is considered one of the outstanding talents in world ice hockey and was already traded as a possible first overall draft pick in the run-up to the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . In the draft, the Toronto Maple Leafs picked him first overall. This makes him one of the very few players from Arizona who make it into the NHL (2015/16 season only Sean Couturier , who grew up in Canada), as well as the first overall first in the NHL Entry Draft that is not in the classic ice hockey markets in Comes from North America and Europe.

On July 21, 2016, he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Maple Leafs. Before the start of the 2016/17 season, however, he took part in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey with Team North America, a selection of U23 players from Canada and the USA . On October 12, 2016, Matthews made his debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL and scored a hat trick with his first three shots . Overall, the attacker marked all of his team's goals in the 4-5 overtime defeat against the Ottawa Senators , making him the first player in league history to score four goals as a debutant. In December 2016, Matthews was named NHL Rookie of the Month and took part in the NHL All-Star Game in January 2017 . In total, the center scored 40 goals and 29 assists in its first NHL season, so that it set a new franchise record for scorer points for a rookie (previously Peter Ihnačák ; 66 points; 1982/83). At the same time, he became the first US league newcomer and the fifth ever to reach the 40 goal mark. Matthews also placed first on the rookie scorer list this season and was part of a historic year of the Maple Leafs, which with William Nylander (3) and Mitchell Marner (4) for the first time three players among the top four rookies of a season from one team posed. As a result, Matthews was honored with the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best league newcomer of the season and at the same time elected to the NHL All-Rookie Team .

In the 2017/18 season, the American confirmed his performance from the previous year, but he missed 20 games due to injury. In February 2019, he signed a new five-year contract in Toronto, which should earn him an average annual salary of approximately $ 11.6 million from the start of the 2019/20 season. At the time of signing, the contract would make him the second highest paid player in the NHL after Connor McDavid when it went into effect .

Achievements and Awards

International

  • 2015 top scorer of the U18 Junior World Championship
  • 2015 Top scorer in the U18 World Junior Championship
  • 2016 bronze medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
  • 2016 Top scorer in the U20 World Junior Championship (together with Patrik Laine )
  • 2016 All-Star Team of the U20 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

Auston Matthews (2016)

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012/13 Arizona Bobcats Midget U16 48 55 45 100 16 - - - - - -
2013/14 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 20th 10 10 20th -5 4th - - - - - -
2014/15 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 24 20th 28 48 +20 10 - - - - - -
2015/16 ZSC Lions NLA 36 24 22nd 46 +16 6th 4th 0 3 3 +1 2
2016/17 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 82 40 29 69 +2 14th 6th 4th 1 5 +2 0
2017/18 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 62 34 29 63 +25 12 7th 1 1 2 -4 0
2018/19 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 68 37 36 73 −9 12 7th 5 1 6th −3 2
2019/20 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 70 47 33 80 +19 8th 5 2 4th 6th +1 0
USHL total 44 30th 38 68 +15 14th - - - - - -
NHL overall 282 158 127 285 +37 46 25th 12 7th 19th -4 2

International

Represented the USA at:

 

Represented team North America at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2014 United States U17-WHC 1st place, gold 6th 4th 4th 8th 8th
2014 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 5 2 7th +7 4th
2015 United States U20 World Cup 5th place 5 1 2 3 ± 0 4th
2015 United States U18 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 8th 7th 15th +11 0
2016 United States U20 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 7th 4th 11 +6 2
2016 United States WM 4th Place 10 6th 3 9 ± 0 2
2016 North America team World cup 5th place 3 2 1 3 +2 0
Juniors overall 32 25th 19th 44 18th
Men overall 13 8th 4th 12 +2 2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Commons : Auston Matthews  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scott Burnside: From Arizona to Switzerland, Auston Matthews' life shaped by family. ESPN , October 28, 2015, accessed December 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Martin Merk: A Wunderkind to Switzerland. IIHF , August 7, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b c d e Philipp Bärtsch: ZSC young star Auston Matthews - The special case. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 9, 2015, accessed on October 12, 2015 .
  4. ^ A b c Mike Johnston: Person of Interest: The 411 on Auston Matthews. sportsnet.ca, May 7, 2015, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  5. ^ Mike G. Morreale: 'Rising Star' Matthews closes out season for Zurich. nhl.com, March 14, 2016, accessed on March 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Mike G. Morreale: Matthews continues improvement in Switzerland. nhl.com, October 12, 2015, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  7. ^ Maple Leafs sign Auston Matthews to entry-level contract. (No longer available online.) Mapleleafs.nhl.com, July 21, 2016, archived from the original on July 21, 2016 ; accessed on July 21, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mapleleafs.nhl.com
  8. ^ Joel Petterson: Auston Matthews Scores Four Goals in His First NHL Game. New York Times , October 13, 2016, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  9. ^ Auston Matthews of Maple Leafs sets rookie records. nhl.com, April 4, 2017, accessed April 25, 2017 .
  10. ^ Leafs Agree to Terms with Auston Matthews on 5-Year Contract Extension. nhl.com, February 5, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .
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personal data
SURNAME Matthews, Auston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthews, Auston Taylour (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Mexican ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH San Ramon , California , United States