Craig Berube says Auston Matthews' big goal is coming

The Toronto Maple Leafs have suffered enough at the clenched clutches of the Florida Panthers . The Panthers did not let the Maple Leafs score even a single goal and tied the series. Everybody is worried about the Maple Leafs’ captain, Auston Matthews .

Matthews is unable to score a goal. Amidst all these doubts, Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube talked about Auston Matthews’ lack of goal-scoring with the Toronto Sun on May 12, “The big goal is coming, that’s the way (he has) to think about it. Who knows when it will happen, but just focus on playing the game. I get the pucks not going in for him, but he’s doing a lot of good things for us, killing penalties, going against other top lines, checking, working, and competing. I’m not overly worried about him.”

🚨🎙️ Craig Berube on On whether he will consider lineup changes for Game 5:

“For sure, we will talk about it. We will look at a couple of different options for what is best for the team. We have a couple of days to think about it and see if we feel that it is a better option.”…

— Leafslatest (@Leafslatest) May 12, 2025

Auston Matthews is at 10 points in 10 postseason games

🚨🎙️ Craig Berube to Auston Matthews this morning:

“The big goal is coming. That’s the way you have to think about it. Who knows when it'll happen? But he’s going to get his looks. He does a lot of things in a lot of other areas. Stick to what's he's doing, don't get… pic.twitter.com/lVcJq24f6l

— Leafslatest (@Leafslatest) May 13, 2025

On May 13, Stephen Nixon, Editor in Leaf, shared, “With over 400 career goals in only 629 games, (Auston)Matthews is arguably the only player who has a chance to beat Alex Ovechkin’s career goal record, but when it comes to the playoffs, he’s scoring at essentially the same level as Nazem Kadri.

If you just look at this stat line, you would see that Matthews has 10 points in 10 games, which you could brush off and say, “That’s fine.” A point-per-game player is still really good, right? Wrong. For an elite talent, Matthews should be averaging well past a point per game and should have way more than two goals by now.”

From Captain America to Captain Underpants, Auston Matthews has 0 goals and just 5 points in his 9 career games played past the first-round of the playoffs. pic.twitter.com/ELoOtc9HRJ

— PuckEmpire (@puckempire) May 12, 2025

Craig Berube hints at potential lineup changes for Game 5 against the ruthless Florida Panthers

Auston Matthews game log:

May 11th vs Florida: 0 goals
May 9th vs Florida: 0 goals
May 7th vs Florida: 0 goals
May 5th vs Florida: 0 goals
May 1st vs Ottawa: 1 goal
April 29th vs Ottawa: 0 goals
April 26th vs Ottawa: 0 goals

Remember when he got 69 goals last year? pic.twitter.com/azerCa8sXi

— Big Head Hockey (@BigHeadHcky) May 12, 2025

On May 12, Leafslatest informed via X - Craig Berube on whether he will consider lineup changes for Game 5: “For sure, we will talk about it. We will look at a couple of different options for what is best for the team. We have a couple of days to think about it and see if we feel that it is a better option.”

X users reacted to it with varying amounts of expectations.

“Our captain needs to score plain and simple”

“Bench Matthews. Totally useless.”

“Line up changes are a must this team is sh*t it needs new life!”

“Sit matthews and Marner, put in guys who care 🙃 the two stars are back to same old tricks again. Maybe in a way it’s better if we lose this series as we blow this all up and bring in guys who know how to win pressure games”

“Want to see these new lines for game 5
Knies Matthews Holmberg
Pacioretty Tavares Nylander
Robertson Laughton Marner
Lorentz Kampf McMann”




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