The NHL announced their three stars of the week today, and there’s a Leafs player on the list! Last year, only Tyler Bozak received that honour. This year, we expect many more Leafs getting accolades to decorate our Twitter feeds on Monday morning.
NHL Three Stars of the Week: 1-Connor McDavid. 2-Auston Matthews. 3-Roberto Luongo.
— Mike Morreale (@mikemorrealeNHL) October 17, 2016
Connor McDavid with three goals and three assists in three games is the first NHL first star of the week this season. Matthews with four goals in two games (he only needed the one) is second, and Roberto Luongo with an unadjusted save percentage of .957 and two wins in two games is third.
We know what Luongo thinks about the second star:
I've just decided that Reims will play ALL of the games versus the leafs this year...... #Matthews
— Strombone (@strombone1) October 13, 2016
We know what McDavid thinks about him:
In my first game I touched the puck four times
And we know what Matthews himself thinks:
He would have been happier with a win. And that doesn’t seem to be an affectation of overblown hockey humility; that seems to be his real focus. And that’s fine, but for the rest of us, we are absolutely allowed to watch this again: