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Toronto's Auston Matthews leads the NHL with 58 goals this season, and he's on pace to score 67. That would surpass Alex Ovechkin's 65 from 2007-08 as the league's most since the salary cap era began in 2005 and tops overall since Mario Lemieux's 68 in 1995-96. Ovechkin says he's rooting for Matthews to pass him and maybe even hit 70. That would Matthews going on a tear with 12 goals in the Maple Leafs' final 12 games to happen.
