Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has come underneath scrutiny in the course of the second spherical of the 2025 NHL playoffs for his lack of goal-scoring manufacturing.

That scrutiny elevated exponentially after the Maple Leafs misplaced 2-0 to the Florida Panthers in Sport 4 on Sunday night time. The Leafs had been inside putting distance the whole night time however failed to seek out the equalizer.

Had Auston Matthews channeled his 60-goal magic, he may have carried the Leafs on his again. Sadly, that didn’t occur and the Leafs misplaced.

With that in thoughts, right here’s a take a look at 16 players who’re not in the 2025 NHL playoffs as their groups have been eliminated, who’ve more goals than Auston Matthews.

16 eliminated NHL players with more goals scored than Leafs’ Auston Matthews in 2025 NHL playoffs

This is the list of the 16 players whose groups have been eliminated from the 2025 NHL playoffs which have more goals than Auston Matthews:

#16 Jordan Kyrou, St. Louis Blues, 3

#15 Quinton Byfield, Los Angeles Kings, 3

#14 Cole Caufield, Montreal Canadiens, 3

#13 Nathan Walker, St. Louis Blues, 3

#12 Artturi Lekhonen, Colorado Avalanche, 3

#11 Valeri Nichushkin, Colorado Avalanche, 3

#10 Marcus Foligno, Minnesota Wild, 3

#9 Andrei Kuzmenko, Los Angeles Kings, 3

#8 Jake Guentzel, Tampa Bay Lightning, 3

#7 Kevin Fiala, Los Angeles Kings, 3

#6 Pavel Buchnevich, St. Louis Blues, 3

#5 Brady Tkachuk, Ottawa Senators, 4

#4 Adrian Kempe, Los Angeles Kings, 4

#3 Matt Boldy, Minnesota, Wild, 5

#2 Kirill Kaprizon, Minnesota Wild, 5

#1 Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche, 7

It’s value mentioning that William Nylander is second amongst lively players this postseason with six goals behind Dallas Stars sniper Mikko Rantanen. Rantanen has gone on a tear not too long ago, racking up back-to-back hat methods. Rantanen is now as much as 9 goals in the postseason to go with 18 factors.

As for Auston Matthews, he’s nonetheless a productive participant offensively. Regardless of notching simply two goals, he has 10 factors in 10 video games, making him a point-per-game participant.

Nevertheless, his manufacturing has dipped considerably in the course of the sequence towards the Panthers as he’s registered simply three assists in the 4 video games up to now. The final time Matthews discovered the again of the web was in Sport 6 towards the Ottawa Senators, additional fueling hypothesis about his lack of offensive manufacturing.

The Maple Leafs shall be hoping Matthews can regain his scoring contact in Sport 5 on Wednesday night time, as Toronto appears to take a 3-2 sequence again to Florida for Sport 6.