{"id":947780,"date":"2026-10-27T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947780\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:22:09","slug":"auston-matthews-becomes-fastest-in-maple-leafs-history-to-reach-800-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947780\/","title":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews becomes fastest in Maple Leafs history to reach 800 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an assist on William Nylander&#8217;s third-period goal on Monday, the captain became the fastest player in franchise history to reach the 800-point milestone, doing so in just 703 games. <\/p>\n<p>He surpassed previous record-holder Darryl Sittler, who hit 800 in 742 games in 1980. <\/p>\n<p>The 2022 league MVP is off to another hot start, with nine goals and 11 assists in 14 games. <\/p>\n<p>Matthews has produced at a point-per-game clip in all but two seasons in his 10-year career. <\/p>\n<p>His most productive season came in 2023-24, when he scored 69 goals and registered 107 points en route to his third Rocket Richard Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Maple Leafs lost Monday&#8217;s game, Toronto still sits third in the Atlantic Division with a 7-5-2 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With an assist on William Nylander&#8217;s third-period goal on Monday, the captain became the fastest player in franchise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-947780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}