SIMMONS SAYS: Auston Matthews needs his Sittler-level signature moment

Auston Matthews will pass Darryl Sittler on the list of career Maple Leafs goal-scorer.

Matthews has yet to have one of those playoff explosions, the career- defining type of post-season explosions.

Sittlers managed 12 points in six playoff games against a Philadelphia Flyers team that had Bobby Clarke , Bernie Parent , Bill Barber , the Watson brothers and players appropriately named Moose and Mad Dog.

It's incredible the work commissioner Gary Bettman has done to grow NHL business.

It doesn’t matter what the Leafs pay Mitch Marner now, so long as it’s less than what Matthews is paid.

The one guy who should be playing for Canada is recently re-signed goaltender Logan Thompson .

In seven years as an NFL starting quarterback, Patrick Mahomes has been to five Super Bowls .

The final stretch in the NHL season will determine the Calder Trophy winner as rookie of the year .

Yanni Gourde’s surgery for sports hernia will all but take him out of the trade market.

Max Scherzer has pitched in the playoffs in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2016 , 2019 , 2021 , 2022 and 2023 .