Matthews was never going to Arizona. He loves the spotlight and he knows that you don’t get to hang out with celebrities and get your face on the cover of a video game twice if you play in Tempe or Glendale or Scottsdale or wherever the hell they are that isn’t Phoenix. If he’s ever going to Arizona it’ll be on a Spezza deal at the very end of his career and by the time that comes there’ll probably be another NHL team in Arizona.
Acrobatic_Law5598
What rumors? He signed an extension this season. It’s just talking points.
JonJonFTW
Don’t worry the talk will start again when Arizona gets an expansion franchise which will come around the time his extension will expire. If the handshake agreement with the Yotes ownership that they get first dibs on one for five years is really a thing.
Hambone18
BREAKING: several league executives tell me Auston Matthews Lion tattoo representing Bailey the mascot is a direct attack on Carlton the Bear and is willing to take a major close-enough-to-hometown discount to be a King in 2028. (Paywall)
BinglessSprocket
Hahahahahahahahaha fuck the yotes
wesley-osbourne
I had this muted and all I could hear was the Linkin Park edit.
shanster925
4 years until he’s in SLC.
burningxmaslogs
Austin is still single. he could convert to Mormonism and marry 4 women if he went to Utah and so can Matthew Knies.
mrcrazy_monkey
Those rumors never had any credibility to them unlike the McDavid coming home ones
Party-Yoghurt-8462
You can always trust Toronto Maples Leafs fans to come up with the most ridiculous rumours. And I always thought this was amongst the most ludicrous I’ve heard in my 30 years as a fan.
There was almost zero chance that Matthews was ever going to go play in some shitty small market to go completely unnoticed within the sports community and never win the Stanley Cup.
I’m not saying he’ll play his whole career in Toronto. But he sure as hell isn’t leaving just to go to some small market where 99 out of 100 people he runs into wouldn’t even recognize him.
Sad_Interaction2278
I feel bad for that fan base. They haven’t been anywhere near good since Doan. His son gets drafted to coyotes too. If you’re a fan of coyotes it means you love the game and it’s the closest team, or you love an underdog story. These fans that show up have to be diehard. The biggest kick in the teeth is they are moving their ahl affiliate to the arena the coyotes were playing at so Tuscon fans can’t even watch them anymore. This move was bad for hockey good for money and probably good for the players. It was needed for the league cause no one would suggest a team in Arizona, but I still feel for those fans. Hopefully they don’t jump on the Vegas bandwagon.
Gradieus
People say Endgame was the end of the MCU, but it was actually this right here. I know this is supposed to be about the Leafs, but Thanos literally won and I won’t let them retcon his victory.
reggierock2010
Maybe if they spent more time attending games and less time fantasizing about Mathews they’d still have a team lol
PrimoThePro
They were disgusting and stupid rumors that only served to probably have him seriously consider it.
toronto_programmer
The idea that the poorest team in the league would somehow pony up a max AAV contract or something to lure Matthews was always the dumbest cope dream for people in Arizona
themoist
I get the memes but if you’re not gutted for yotes fans you don’t have a heart. Aside from what’s happening in Oakland right now I can’t recall an owner fucking their fans over this bad
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Lol good! Now he has nowhere to go but to stay..
Matthews was never going to Arizona. He loves the spotlight and he knows that you don’t get to hang out with celebrities and get your face on the cover of a video game twice if you play in Tempe or Glendale or Scottsdale or wherever the hell they are that isn’t Phoenix. If he’s ever going to Arizona it’ll be on a Spezza deal at the very end of his career and by the time that comes there’ll probably be another NHL team in Arizona.
What rumors? He signed an extension this season. It’s just talking points.
Don’t worry the talk will start again when Arizona gets an expansion franchise which will come around the time his extension will expire. If the handshake agreement with the Yotes ownership that they get first dibs on one for five years is really a thing.
BREAKING: several league executives tell me Auston Matthews Lion tattoo representing Bailey the mascot is a direct attack on Carlton the Bear and is willing to take a major close-enough-to-hometown discount to be a King in 2028. (Paywall)
Hahahahahahahahaha fuck the yotes
I had this muted and all I could hear was the Linkin Park edit.
4 years until he’s in SLC.
Austin is still single. he could convert to Mormonism and marry 4 women if he went to Utah and so can Matthew Knies.
Those rumors never had any credibility to them unlike the McDavid coming home ones
You can always trust Toronto Maples Leafs fans to come up with the most ridiculous rumours. And I always thought this was amongst the most ludicrous I’ve heard in my 30 years as a fan.
There was almost zero chance that Matthews was ever going to go play in some shitty small market to go completely unnoticed within the sports community and never win the Stanley Cup.
I’m not saying he’ll play his whole career in Toronto. But he sure as hell isn’t leaving just to go to some small market where 99 out of 100 people he runs into wouldn’t even recognize him.
I feel bad for that fan base. They haven’t been anywhere near good since Doan. His son gets drafted to coyotes too. If you’re a fan of coyotes it means you love the game and it’s the closest team, or you love an underdog story. These fans that show up have to be diehard. The biggest kick in the teeth is they are moving their ahl affiliate to the arena the coyotes were playing at so Tuscon fans can’t even watch them anymore. This move was bad for hockey good for money and probably good for the players. It was needed for the league cause no one would suggest a team in Arizona, but I still feel for those fans. Hopefully they don’t jump on the Vegas bandwagon.
People say Endgame was the end of the MCU, but it was actually this right here. I know this is supposed to be about the Leafs, but Thanos literally won and I won’t let them retcon his victory.
Maybe if they spent more time attending games and less time fantasizing about Mathews they’d still have a team lol
They were disgusting and stupid rumors that only served to probably have him seriously consider it.
The idea that the poorest team in the league would somehow pony up a max AAV contract or something to lure Matthews was always the dumbest cope dream for people in Arizona
I get the memes but if you’re not gutted for yotes fans you don’t have a heart. Aside from what’s happening in Oakland right now I can’t recall an owner fucking their fans over this bad