{"id":390677,"date":"2026-01-04T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:20:08","slug":"sundin-congratulates-matthews-on-breaking-maple-leafs-goals-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390677\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundin congratulates Matthews on breaking Maple Leafs goals record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Auston, congratulations on beating my record,&#8221; said Sundin, who served as Maple Leafs captain from 1997-2008 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to enjoy it more when your career is over, but it&#8217;s a great milestone and good luck chasing the big championship with the Toronto Maple Leafs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sundin scored 420 goals in 13 seasons with Toronto, spread over 981 games from 1994-2008. He scored 564 goals over 19 NHL seasons, including four seasons with the Quebec Nordiques and one with the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews, the Maple Leafs current captain, is in his 10th NHL season, all with Toronto. Saturday night was his 664th career game. He is averaging just under 45 goals per season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Auston, congratulations on beating my record,&#8221; said Sundin, who served as Maple Leafs captain from 1997-2008 and was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-390677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}