Scoring goals is all about being in the right spots. Scorers find and use open spaces better than the average player; they recognize dangerous areas, move inside holes in the defence and load up their shots. But what truly separates good scorers from the elite ones, the players racking up 40 or more goals in a season, is timing — the art of arriving in the right spots, at the right time.
Auston Matthews is again on pace for the best goal total of his career. He constantly finds new ways to get the puck from his blade to the back of the net by changing his mechanics: the angle of his shots, his body position, and his feet pattern.