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Saturday’s FTB: Matthews and Ovechkin tied at 40

Pension Plan Puppets | February 8, 2020

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Yeah, that’s right, Auston Matthews shares the league lead in goals with Alex Ovechkin, the greatest goal scorer of all time. Both of them have 40, Matthews having done it in 55 games, while Ovi got to that number in 53 games. At the same time, Matthews has 11 more points than Ovi so six of one.

Let’s see how Matthews got all his goals (league rank):

  • PP = 10 (6th)
  • 6v5* = 3 (1st)
  • 5v6* = 2 (22nd)
*These are empty net goals aggregated to include weird game states like 6v4 and 5v4+EN.
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