- Auston Matthews reached 800 career points in Toronto’s 5-2 loss to Calgary
- He did it in 703 games, passing Darryl Sittler for the fastest in Maple Leafs history
- Read below for how the milestone came together and what else happened in Calgary
Auston Matthews is now the fastest player in Maple Leafs history to reach 800 career points.
The Leafs captain got there Monday night with an assist on William Nylander’s third-period goal in Calgary. It was his 703rd game, 39 fewer than the 742 it took Darryl Sittler, who hit 800 on Nov. 15, 1980.
Toronto fell 5-2 to the Flames, so the record came in a losing effort. Nylander cut the Calgary lead to 3-2 at 6:06 of the third when he took a cross-crease pass from Jack Roslovic and lifted a shot past a diving Devin Cooley. Matthews picked up the secondary assist.
Matthews finished the night with 437 goals and 363 assists. He has 20 points in 14 games this season, with a point in four of his last six.
He was one point away heading into the game after scoring in Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Oilers. Easton Cowan set that one up, and Matthews finished it:
Matvei Gridin had two goals and an assist for Calgary, which won its fourth straight and went 4-0-0 on the homestand. Joel Farabee and Martin Pospisil added empty-net goals, and Cooley stopped 26 shots. Sergei Bobrovsky made his 800th NHL start for the Leafs and made 30 saves, so Monday was a night for round numbers on both sides.
The Leafs also lost Kirill Marchenko to a lower-body injury in the second period. They had won four in a row before this one and visit the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday.
We looked ahead to the record in our Matthews 800 points preview, and he needed just one game to get it.
