Auston Matthews Goals By Team: The Complete Record

Auston Matthews has scored 428 goals in 689 regular-season games through the 2025-26 season, and he has scored against all 32 NHL franchises. He scores most against New Jersey, at 0.913 goals per game. The team he scores least against, among those he has faced 20 times or more, is Pittsburgh, at 0.375 goals per game.

He has also played 24 games against Boston and 26 against the New York Rangers without taking a single penalty minute.

Auston Matthews’ goals against every NHL team

Regular season, through the end of the 2025-26 season. Ranked by goals per game. Career rate: 0.621.

Opponent	GP	G	A	PTS	G/GP	S	S%
New Jersey Devils	23	21	11	32	0.913	87	24.1
San Jose Sharks	16	14	5	19	0.875	64	21.9
Minnesota Wild	15	12	6	18	0.800	56	21.4
Dallas Stars	14	11	6	17	0.786	56	19.6
Vegas Golden Knights	14	11	3	14	0.786	58	19.0
Columbus Blue Jackets	20	15	10	25	0.750	89	16.9
Montreal Canadiens	40	29	18	47	0.725	153	19.0
Buffalo Sabres	32	23	15	38	0.719	132	17.4
Ottawa Senators	37	26	26	52	0.703	146	17.8
New York Islanders	20	14	6	20	0.700	87	16.1
Seattle Kraken	10	7	8	15	0.700	38	18.4
Winnipeg Jets	26	18	20	38	0.692	114	15.8
Anaheim Ducks	16	11	9	20	0.688	75	14.7
Nashville Predators	16	11	7	18	0.688	69	15.9
Colorado Avalanche	18	12	11	23	0.667	73	16.4
Vancouver Canucks	27	18	8	26	0.667	125	14.4
Carolina Hurricanes	22	14	7	21	0.636	89	15.7
Detroit Red Wings	30	19	17	36	0.633	121	15.7
Edmonton Oilers	22	13	11	24	0.591	88	14.8
Boston Bruins	24	14	13	27	0.583	82	17.1
Arizona Coyotes	14	8	1	9	0.571	53	15.1
Chicago Blackhawks	17	9	14	23	0.529	75	12.0
Tampa Bay Lightning	29	15	20	35	0.517	132	11.4
Florida Panthers	32	16	13	29	0.500	129	12.4
Philadelphia Flyers	24	12	16	28	0.500	86	14.0
Washington Capitals	21	10	17	27	0.476	68	14.7
Calgary Flames	26	12	15	27	0.462	105	11.4
New York Rangers	26	11	13	24	0.423	98	11.2
Los Angeles Kings	15	6	8	14	0.400	63	9.5
Pittsburgh Penguins	24	9	14	23	0.375	86	10.5
St. Louis Blues	16	6	4	10	0.375	57	10.5
Utah Mammoth	3	1	0	1	0.333	7	14.3
Career	689	428	352	780	0.621	2761	15.5

How many goals has Auston Matthews scored in his NHL career?

428, in 689 games, through the end of the 2025-26 season. That is 0.621 goals a game, or 51.0 across an 82-game season, with 352 assists for 780 points. 66 of the 428 were game-winners (15.4%), and 109 came on the power play (25.5%). He has taken 2,761 shots at a shooting percentage of 15.5.

Who did Auston Matthews score his first NHL goal against?

He scored his first NHL goal against the Ottawa Senators on 12 October 2016, with his first shot on goal in the NHL. Matthews beat Craig Anderson with a wrist shot at 8:21 of the first period, assisted by Zach Hyman and William Nylander, and then scored three more. He is the only player in the modern NHL era to score four goals in his debut. All four came at even strength, and all four came on Anderson. Toronto lost 5-4 in overtime on a Kyle Turris goal 37 seconds in, and Matthews said afterward that the winner was entirely his fault. He has since scored 26 goals in 37 games against Ottawa.

Which team does Auston Matthews score most against?

New Jersey, at 0.913 goals a game: 21 goals in 23 games, on 87 shots, at a shooting percentage of 24.1. San Jose is second at 0.875, but that is a 16-game sample. Among the five Atlantic Division rivals he has faced most, Montreal leads at 0.725 over 40 games, the largest sample in the table and the only row where a finishing claim needs no caveat. One line holds across the division: he has scored more than a goal every second game against every Atlantic rival except Florida and Tampa Bay.

Which team has held Auston Matthews down?

Pittsburgh, and it is not close among the teams he has faced often. Nine goals in 24 games is 0.375 per game, and his shooting percentage against the Penguins is 10.5% versus a career 15.5%. He has never scored a game-winner against them. The reverse also holds, and it is the better fact: against Pittsburgh and Washington, his two coldest big-sample rows, 61% and 63% of his points are assists, versus a career 45%.

Does Auston Matthews shoot more or finish better against his best opponents?

He finishes better. Across the 32 rows, shooting percentage correlates with goals per game at 0.898, while shots per game correlates at only 0.410. His goal rate against a given opponent is driven almost entirely by how many chances he converts, not by how many he takes. Tampa Bay is the cleanest illustration of the gap: it is his third-highest shot volume at 4.55 a game and 132 shots, and his fifth-worst shooting percentage at 11.4. Washington is the mirror image, the lowest shot volume of any real sample at 3.24 a game, and a points rate above his career figure because the assists carry it.

Which teams has Auston Matthews never taken a penalty against?

Six: Boston, the New York Rangers, San Jose, Minnesota, Dallas and Utah. The first two are the quotable ones, because they cover 50 games against two of the rivals most likely to invite a response. His career total is 152 penalty minutes in 689 games, which is 18.1 per 82, low for a center playing 20 minutes a night. The exception is Buffalo, where 20 minutes in 32 games works out at 51.2 per 82, almost three times his career rate and 13% of his career penalty minutes against one opponent.