There hasn’t been a Toronto Maple Leafs player reach the 50-goal plateau since before Auston Matthews was born, however the star forward is on the verge of doing so after scoring his 49th of the season earlier this week in Boston. Matthews is producing at the highest rate of his career this season and is riding a three-game goal streak within a 10-game point streak. He has 12 goals in 11 games this month alone. Toronto plays the Jets Thursday, and if Matthews, who scored five goals in nine games against Winnipeg in 2020-21, can extend his active streak to four games, then he’ll make modern Leafs history. John Tavares scored 47 goals in his first season with the blue and white, back in 2018-19. It was the highest total for a Maple Leafs player in a quarter century, and the best showing from a Leaf in the salary-cap era. Matthews tied that cap-era mark and set a personal record with 47 in 2019-20. He broke the franchise’s cap-era record against the Panthers this past weekend. T...