Top-5: A horrible Auston Matthews turnover gives the Bruins victory in overtime

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There were 14 games on the schedule last night across the National Hockey League, with only four teams off.

As a result, there were a number of excellent highlights across the board.

Here’s what caught our eye the most.

1. Auston Matthews: from hero to zero in minutes

It was a classic last night, as the Toronto Maple Leafs traveled to Boston to take on the Bruins at TD Garden.

And let’s just say, it didn’t disappoint.

With the game headed for a Bruins victory over the Leafs (yet again), Auston Matthews was the hero, tying the game with just over a minute to go.

So we headed into overtime with the momentum clearly on the Maple Leafs’ side.

But, true to form, the Leafs choked.

And more precisely, it was the captain himself who was responsible for the defeat.

After tying the game, Matthews committed a horrible turnover in overtime, feeding a perfect pass to David Pastrnak who picked out Brad Marchand for the winning goal.

In short, from hero to zero for Matthews in the space of a few minutes, as the Bruins won 4-3 in overtime.

The Leafs are 4-4-1 this season and don’t seem like a different team than the one that loses in the first round every year.

2. Matvei Michkov continues to impress

The Montreal Canadiens’ young Russian prospect from the Philadelphia Flyers has been nothing short of sensational since his arrival in the NHL.

He’s scoring points in virtually every game, and looks a clear candidate to win the Calder Trophy at the end of the season.

Yesterday, as the Flyers hosted the Minnesota Wild, Michkov took the opportunity to score his first Philadelphia goal in front of his home fans.

A magnificent shot worthy of the major lines.

In this 7-5 victory, Michkov also picked up an assist, making it nine points in his first eight career NHL games.

He’s exceptional, and the more the days go by, the more he hurts the Habs fans.

It’s also worth noting that in this game, Sean Couturier, playing his 500th career game, collected five points, including a hat trick.

His first goal of the game was his first in 33 games.

3. Matthew Tkachuk: the league’s biggest goaltending pest

Last night, in the Florida Panthers’ 6-3 win over the New York Islanders, we had the perfect example of why Matthew Tkachuk has such a reputation as a pest.

I’ll let you watch the following sequence, which leads to a Tkachuk goal.

For those who didn’t make it to the video replay, here it is.

In short, Tkachuk can be seen disturbing Semyon Varlamov as best he can by checking him, taking his stick from him and giving him one last poke to finally score on the throwback.

A real pest, that Tkachuk.

Mackie Samoskevich scored his first NHL goal of the game.

4. Jonathan Marchessault gives the Preds the win with a magnificent goal

The Nashville Predators got off to a VERY poor start to their season with five consecutive losses, but they’ve been quietly bouncing back ever since.

Last night, they scored a 3ᵉ straight win, this time 4-3 in overtime against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

It was Jonathan Marchessault who scored the winning goal in overtime, as he went for a magnificent individual effort, breaking the ankles of a Blue Jackets player in the process.

5. The Jets are simply unbeatable

For several days now, the Winnipeg Jets have been the only unbeaten team in the entire NHL, and that remained the case last night with their 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames.

Things are looking up for the Jets, and even their luck is smiling on them at the moment, as evidenced by Dylan Samberg’s goal.

That now makes eight straight wins to start the season, which is a record in NHL history for Scott Arniel as a new team head coach.

Also note that the Jets are 42-11-2 when Gabriel Vilardi, obtained in the Pierre-Luc Dubois trade, is in uniform.

Prolongation

– Connor Bedard scores his 3ᵉ goal of the season, and his 9ᵉ point in as many games. What a blistering shot.

– Connor Geekie scored his first NHL goal last night.

– In Vancouver, Arshdeep Bains achieved the same feat as Geekie.

– Here are all the results from the previous day.

– Here are yesterday’s top scorers.

(Credit: NHL.com)

– Today’s NHL schedule: four games.

(Credit: Google/NHL)

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