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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Matthews game has improved to the point he's one of the best 2-way centers in the league which is anything but one-dimensional. He just happens to perform the most difficult task in the NHL better than almost everyone else while excelling at both ends of the ice.
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No one is arguing that Matthews is not a great centre and goal scorer.
He just isn't in the same league as McKinnon and Crosby in all around play, especially in producing in the playoffs.
Players like Toews and Bergeron didn't have the offensive skills of Mathews, nor the talent level, but each come playoff time did more to help their teams win than Matthews has done.
Some players come playoff time can lift their level of play. No one considered Duncan Keith the best dman in the league, but come playoff time, he reminded us how good he really was. Toronto doesn't have enough of those players. They may not have any actually.
The next two games gives Toronto and its players a chance to prove that premise wrong.