This is a tough one tonight here.

Guess where I am.

I'm in the shower.

Austin Matthews, a Toronto Maple Leafs record and then calls Game.

Welcome once again to 32 Thoughts to Podcast, presented by the all new GMC AT4 lineup.

It is once again a car cast.

Elliott, you're coming back from working the Dallas Toronto game where Austin Matthews was the center of attention.

First of all, I don't know what his post game routine is, but I'm guessing he's going to need a lot of ice for his shoulders.

I think they're probably ready to fall off with the amount of shots he took tonight.

Your thoughts on Austin Matthews?

Look, if you would have gone back to Tuesday and again they had 13 goals that you figured he would have scored one of them, right?

He was determined that there was not going to be two in a row without this.

And Anthony, I thought, showed a really good highlight in the broadcast of how the stars were really on them early in that game.

They were bumping him every chance they could.

They were letting him know they were there.

And one of the things that Matthews, like for all of his skills, one of the things he's really learned,

and he made a point of learning this, was how to create openings.

Like when he's being marked and he's always going to be marked, how does he find open ice in the offensive zone

so that he can create some space?

And he was doing that.

Now, some of it was the power play, and obviously the game wouldn't goal was three on three,

but he's much, much better at creating open ice for himself than he used to be.

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