Auston Matthews is officially the Rocket Richard winner

We patiently waited until the last regular season game ended to post this in the most accurate fashion, but Auston Matthews is now officially the 2021-22 Rocket Richard winner with his 60 goals.

The feat is even more impressive considering the nine missed games, and leads us to wonder what could have been and what’s coming next year.

The impressive total is a new single season record for the Leafs and it’s only the third time in the 2000s that a player has hit that mark. Matthews hitting the 100 point mark, and being the first Leaf since Doug Gilmour to do that only adds to the impressiveness of the feat, and puts an exclamation mark on a very special season.

To celebrate, here are all 60 of Matthews goals this year.