October 12th, 2016. A date that is recognizable to some, maybe for birthdays or anniversaries, but to the hockey-obsessed it is the date of Auston Matthews' incredible 4-goal game in Ottawa on the night of his NHL debut. Auston Matthews was drafted 1st overall in June of that year after taking the road less traveled, playing for the ZSC Lions of the NLA in Zurich, Switzerland. If his atypical route and high draft status didn't make him a household name, his opening night, 4-goal performance did. In the years to come, the hockey community watched as he regularly ranked within the NHL's Top Ten in Shots on Goal, all the while wondering what it was about Auston's shot that made him so successful. Soon coaches began to obsess over what would become the "Matthews Shot"; this technique sees Matthews pull the puck back to his heels and into his feet, before changing the angle of the shot, and snapping the puck off his outside leg, rather than the inside leg. Skills coaches all over the world began teaching this as the one and only way to shoot a puck.
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