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Birth/About Auston
Auston was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved to Arizona at a young age attending Phoenix Coyotes games, he grew up playing hockey and baseball, and apparently as a child he was better at baseball, but dropped it because he prefered hockey. He currently plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL -
Drafted to the WHL Bantam Draft
He was drafted Everett Silvertips in the WHL -
USA U17 Team
Instead of playing for the Everett Silvertips, he opted to play for the US U17 team -
Switzerland
He also played for the ZSC Lions of the Swiss national hockey league -
Experience with US U18 Team
In his season with the US U18 team he got the record for most points with the team (118) beating Patrick Kane's previous record. This is what got him noticed most. -
NHL Draft
He was drafted first overall to the Toronto Maple Leafs. There was many other amazing players in this draft, making being drafted1st overall a bigger feat then it already was. -
First NHL Game
He played his first NHL game against the Ottawa Senators. In his first ever game he scored 4 goals, which has never been done before in a player's first game -
All-Star Game
Matthews was the only Leafs player picked to play in the all star game this season. -
Most goals by a Leafs rookie
On this day, Matthews scored his 35th goal of the season making him the Leafs player to score most goals as a rookie -
Calder Memorial Trophy
Matthews won this trophy for being rookie of the year
