Matt Martin has wildly improbable career night for Leafs
Matt Martin’s role on the Toronto Maple Leafs is not to create offence. He’s not a goon in the traditional sense, but he earns his ice time by bringing a physical element.
On Saturday night he brought something else. In a 6-4 loss to the St. Louis Blues, Martin had an extremely improbable career game, producing three assists for his first three-point night in 534 tries.
To put his three-helper game in perspective he managed four all of last season despite playing 82 games. He’s never had a double-digit assist season.
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Making the whole performance even more bizarre was the quality of the assists. Here they are in order on goals by Andreas Borgman once and Tyler Bozak twice.
.@andreasborgman with the blast. #TMLtalk pic.twitter.com/BwfzSjJd9t
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 4, 2017
Threading through traffic. #TMLtalk pic.twitter.com/O7QUpqa0mi
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 5, 2017
.@Bozie42 tips it home. #TMLtalk pic.twitter.com/9TKD1IqO9m
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) November 5, 2017
The middle effort was a second assist – although one where he played an important role in the play – but the other two are nice cross-ice feeds that weren’t easy.
Not a bad night’s work in only 8:38 on the ice.
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