Where Does Auston Matthews Rank on the NHL All-Time Goals List?
The Toronto Maple Leafs are yet to win the Stanley Cup during the Auston Matthews Era.
The Toronto Maple Leafs will either win the Stanley Cup with Auston Matthews or he will go down as the best player to never win it.
While we hope that he does, he’s the Leafs best player of all-time, and with apologies to their now second-best player of all-time Mats Sundin, it’s not even close.
And I say that despite the fact that my all-time favorite athlete is Mats Sundin. And while that is unlikely to ever change, you gotta face up to reality and admit Matthews is the best.
He’s only 26 years old and he’s already climbing up the Leafs and the NHL all-time leader boards.
Where Does Auston Matthews Rank on the NHL All-Time Goals List?
Auston Matthews is already sixth in all-time Leafs Franchise scoring with 649 points.
That’s crazy, but what is even crazier is that he’s already third in goals.
Matthews has 368 career goals. The all-time Leafs leader is Mats Sundin with a cool 420.
Matthews only needs 52 goals to become the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leading goal scorer, and if he plays his whole career here, he’s going to roughly double the amount of goals he already has.
If Matthews plays most of the upcoming season, he should easily become the all-time highest goal scorer in team history. No wonder, if we’re calling a 53 goal season something he can “easily” do.
Matthews is also potentially on track to lead the NHL in all-time goals.
Wayne Gretzky scored 894 times and is the all-time goal leader.
To catch Gretzky, Matthews will need to score 526 more times. The math on that is easy, just score 52.6 goals in each of the next ten years and it’s done.
Doing that won’t exactly be easy, which is why Gretzky is the best there ever was. However, if Matthews ages well and is elite until he’s about 40 – which Crosby and Ovechkin both more or less pulled off – he could do it.
There would need to be a lot of luck and good fortune along the way, but just the fact we’re even discussing this as an outside possibility is pretty cool. Matthews is amazing.
Matthews 368 goals have him in 138th place all-time. That might not sound like a lot,but he’s only played just over 560 career games.
He needs one goal to tie Bernie Federko and four to tie Eric Lindros. A 50 season in 2024-25 will put him past Jason Arnott and into the top 100 of all-time. (all stats nhl.com).
If he matches last year’s 69 goals, he’ll tie Pavel Bure for 76th all-time.
