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Barley Risotto and Kimchi: A Culinary Crossroads| SaltWire #food #cookingshorts #kimchiBefore there was Auston Matthews, there was a National Hockey League in the 1980s and 1990s and scoring 60 or more goals in any season seemed neither impossible nor improbable.
When Matthews became the ninth player in hockey history to have at least two 60-goal scoring seasons, he did so on a platform all his own. No Leaf of this century or any other one has had a season comparable to what Gilmour accomplished in 1993. Gilmour couldn’t have been more different than Matthews. He was small to Matthews’ giant size. He didn’t shoot particularly well. He had remarkable vision and instincts and an innate ability to make everyone around him better and taller and smarter and occasionally meaner.
And at just about the same time, Alomar was using his vision, his instincts, his pure joy of baseball, to help bring two World Series teams to Toronto. This year, as Matthews heads towards 70 or close to it, league scoring is at 3.11 goals per game. That means, on average, a team is scoring 43 fewer goals than it did in Selanne’s big year and Matthews is scoring more than he ever has before.I’ve always referred to Mike Bossy as the greatest goal scorer ever. Because he was so natural. Because it looked so easy for him. He got the puck, like Matthews, and he just shot it. Bang. He didn’t aim all that often, he once told me.
Prior to Matthews making the list, there were the Canadians, Esposito and Gretzky, Steve Yzerman, Bossy and Lemieux; the Finn, Jari Kurri; the Russian Rocket, Pavel Bure; and the Canadian trained American Brett Hull all with 60 goals at least twice on their resume.
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