The Auston Matthews Dilema

Yesterday Auston Matthews scored his 15th goal of the season making him the goal leader of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Sadly, we lost. Watching the game, I couldn't help but notice that it seemed like everytime Matthews' scores, we lose. I did a bit of research and the stats I found were shocking.

Auston Matthews scored in 11 games this season. Of those 11 games, we won 2. That means that we only win 18% of the games he scores in. THAT'S HORRENDOUS. Even the game where he had a 4 goal game wasn't enough to bring a victory to the team. Compare that to Mitch Marner's numbers. He scored in 7 games, and of those 7, we won 6 of them. that's 86%.

Now ask yourself why? Well let's see if it's because of the teams they played.

Auston Matthews scored against:

• Ottawa (Andersen)
• Tampa Bay (Bishop)
• New Jersey (Schneider)
• Washington (Holtby)
• Edmonton (Talbot)
• Vancouver (Miller)
• Boston (Rask)
• San Jose (Jones)
• Arizona (Smith)

Mitch Marner scored against:

• Boston (Rask)
• Buffalo (Nilsson)
• Vancouver (Miller)
• Philadelphia (Mason)
• Nashville (Rinne)
• Florida (Luongo)
• Arizona (Smith)

It obviously isn't the goalie situation because both of them score against elite goalies so what is it? What makes Auston Matthews so unlucky?