Nine hundred and eighty-two players have skated in at least one game for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

None has scored more than Auston Matthews, who notched his 420th and 421st goals with the Maple Leafs on Saturday, passing former longtime captain Mats Sundin for the most in franchise history.

Matthews, the Leafs’ current captain, needed just 664 games to break the record.

Sundin was 36 in the fall of 2007 when he passed Darryl Sittler to become the franchise’s leading goal scorer. Matthews grabbed hold of the record at age 28.

It’s a remarkable achievement that was almost telegraphed on Matthews’ first day with the team when he became the first player in modern times to score four goals in an NHL debut. Matthews ended up with 40 goals that season as a 19-year-old rookie, tied for second-most in the league.

Only the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, with 44 goals, scored more.

Until recently, Matthews scored with an ease like that of few players in NHL history. He scored 40 goals or more in three of his first five NHL seasons (and at a 40-goal pace in the remaining two seasons) and took over the Leafs single-season franchise record from Rick Vaive with 60 goals as a 24-year-old.

That 2021-22 season included an incredible stretch of 57 goals in 61 games.

Two seasons later, Matthews stretched the limits even further when he broke his own franchise mark with 69 goals. It was only the 18th such season in league history and the most anyone had scored since Mario Lemieux went for 69 nearly 30 years earlier.

Matthews is one of only nine players to score 60 goals or more in two separate seasons. Even Alex Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer, has scored 60 in a season only once.

Only five players in NHL history scored more goals in their first 664 career games than Matthews: Wayne Gretzky, Lemieux, Mike Bossy, Brett Hull and Jari Kurri.

Matthews has won the Rocket Richard Trophy as the league’s leader in goals three times.

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Though he now shares the Leafs’ all-time mark in goals, Matthews overtook Sundin for the franchise lead in even-strength goals long ago. Matthews ranks first with 311 such goals, 38 more than Sundin’s 273.

Matthews’ 66 game-winning goals, including the one he scored in a comeback win over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday, rank second behind Sundin’s 79.

Matthews has struggled to score at his usual pace this season, but still leads the Leafs with 20 goals.