First 300 games as a Maple Leaf; Most Goals

Recently, Mitchell Marner recorded his 300th career point. He is the third fastest Maple Leaf (among those whose career began in Toronto) to the plateau. His 307 career games is bested by only Charlie Conacher's 294 games and Syl Apps' 284 games. His linemate Auston Matthews should soon get to 300 in less games than Marner as he sits at 293 points in 289 career games. He should even be able to do it faster than  Conacher by collecting at least 7 points in his next 10 games. 
Seeing as Matthews is approaching his 300th career game, I decided to see where he ranks in Leaf history for goals scored over the first 300 games of a career. The leaders are as follows;
 
Papi is in some fantastic company among Maple Leaf franchise legends. Personally, I don't believe he has even peaked yet. If Matthews produces at even close to this level for the next decade, he's likely to shatter most franchise scoring marks.
This list above includes ONLY players who began their careers with Toronto (a few way, all the way back to the Toronto Arenas and St.Pats). This unfortunately excludes Rick Vaive who scored 186 in his first 300 games with the Leafs as he began his rookie season with 47 games in Vancouver. Others not included are Mats Sundin (135 goals in first 300 Leaf games after trade from Quebec), Phil Kessel (129 after trade from Boston) and Dave Andreychuk and Paul Henderson who each scored 120 goals in their first 300 Leaf games after multiple years with their previous squads.
As a comparison, the following is the number of goals scored in the first 300 games of these recent legends:
Gretzky 248
Lemieux 230
Ovechkin 204
Bure 187
Selanne 186
Stamkos 158
Crosby 138
Malkin 137
Jagr 122

Comments

Bilko said…
You were a little bit off on your math about Matthews beating Conacher 😉

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