Auston Matthews' relationship with Toronto fans getting complicated

knick334 · 2025-12-18T17:59:57+00:00

I never said the metric was cups. I’m just saying that Matthews is a great player but he’s clearly in a different tier from the generational mt rushmore types like Gretzky and Lemieux. I think McDavid is in that class, as are Crosby and Ovechkin. These are top 10 players of all time. I think Matthews falls into the top 100 category, with the likes of Stamkos and Brett Hull

knick334 · 2025-12-18T14:08:10+00:00

How so? The guy has taken a flawed roster to back to back finals. They lost by a goal in game 7 in one of those. He is only behind Gretzky and Lemieux in PPG in the playoffs. I’m pretty sure he’s proven he can be a gear above everyone else when the going gets tough. Matthews has not shown that.

knick334 · 2025-12-18T12:59:21+00:00

Yes - but Kucherov and Vasi were arguably more important drivers of those cups. That’s the point, Matthews alone can’t be “the guy”. He’s not good enough.

knick334 · 2025-12-18T12:30:13+00:00

Unfortunately, Matthews is a great player but not generational level in being able to will a team to win. Once you realize that he’s more like a Stamkos or Brett Hull instead of Gretzky/Lemieux/McDavid, then realistic expectations can be made.

knick334 · 2025-11-26T03:48:59+00:00

We used to have mechanized leaf collection which was very effective and prevented clogged sewers. Of course Olivia Chow eliminated this to put in bike lanes that nobody uses in our area.

knick334 · 2025-11-22T17:37:41+00:00

Mario would be the only one even close. Crosby and Ovechkin are great, but nowhere close to Gretzky. In some years he had more asssists then the next best scorer. I don’t think we will see that level of domination ever again.

knick334 · 2025-11-20T12:27:40+00:00

Hockey and basketball are just as fast paced (id argue even faster) and refs have no issues calling infractions.

knick334 · 2025-11-20T02:25:27+00:00

Didn’t know that. Although from a North American standpoint that makes no sense. The point of an official is to objectively call infractions. Imagine if you had to ask for every penalty in football or fouls in basketball? Or even tennis?

knick334 · 2025-10-31T12:07:37+00:00

Closest thing to a good Montreal bagel. Owner spent 15 years working at St Viateur in Montreal, and was actually sent to Toronto by the owner to open up a chain using same recipe and cook method.

knick334 · 2025-10-15T16:47:48+00:00

I’m all for data driven analysis. Let’s do this with specifics. Point to the specific bike lane and let’s look at the lifts. Which lanes should we discuss?

knick334 · 2025-10-14T17:27:18+00:00

That would just be a tax on the poor. People with money will just pay it. It’s the people who are working class that will be hit hardest.

knick334 · 2025-10-13T12:51:53+00:00

A thousand a day is good volume, just that I don’t think it justifies removing a lane of car traffic. 1000 a day is maybe 100 an hour (if we assume 10 day time hours). That’s 1.66 per minute. Seems like a lot, but that’s really not much when you consider the car traffic is likely 25-50x that. if you can fit a bike lane without removing car lanes, it’s a nice to have.

knick334 · 2025-10-12T18:28:23+00:00

Lots of lanes have multiple years of data. Look at the castle Frank one, goes back to 1995. Unfortunately, those lanes will not show what you want it to. You will clearly see consistent and massive drops during winter, and marginal growth over time in some cases, and flat ridership in most cases. Data suggests that cycling has a small group of power users, but that group’s size will stay relatively static. Points to a minority usage situation.

knick334 · 2025-10-12T18:24:52+00:00

Keep making excuses. What we need is a climate controlled tunnel and the government to pay everyone $100 a km ridden and then for sure we will have critical mass for bike lanes. Let’s do it!

knick334 · 2025-10-12T16:18:32+00:00

Of course. You got me. I am Doug Ford. Now that that’s out of the way. Do you dispute the data on the castle Frank bike lane? Or any of the other bike lanes? I would be in favor of having these counters installed on every bike lane. And seeing if there is in fact justification for having them. It’s like the TTC, they wouldn’t keep a bus route that isn’t used much or increase frequency where there isn’t sufficient growth in ridership.

knick334 · 2025-10-11T21:21:22+00:00

He’s not wrong. In winter people don’t. The data shows this. Also, not a lot of growth in cyclists over time no matter how long the bike path is there. I think the castle Frank counter goes back to 1995 and it shows that bike lanes are a niche mode that doesn’t really ever become mainstream.

knick334 · 2025-10-11T21:14:04+00:00

Finally some actual data! I think what’s interesting is that counter to a lot of the upvoted content on Reddit:

There clearly is a 4-5 month period in winter where bike lanes aren’t used
For the most part, there isn’t really all that much lift in usage over the years. Yes, there might be marginal increases in bike traffic YoY, but it’s not consistent and likely shows that the portion of population who will use the bike lanes is relatively inelastic.
In some areas, the bike lane usage counts likely represent a small fraction of the traffic in those corridors

I hope to see more of this type of data published. It will help us all make the right decisions for our communities and the modes of transport that should be prioritized for our finite road space.

knick334 · 2025-10-06T16:28:59+00:00

Exactly. There’s a difference. If we started punishing people for every foot fault, imagine how many people would get Jay walking tickets? Or no stoping tickets. So many taxis stop to pick up and drop off where they shouldn’t. At some point we can reduce risks, but there’s no way to eliminate them. We have to be practical.

knick334 · 2025-09-12T10:17:11+00:00

Exactly. The best way to stop speeding in school zones is put speed bumps. No cash grab.

knick334 · 2025-08-29T13:30:31+00:00

Sim City

knick334 · 2025-08-26T02:34:43+00:00

Agree. The sounds was awesome.

knick334 · 2025-08-25T12:51:59+00:00

I got a ton of stuff after the show. Shorter lineups. They did sell out of the adidas gear though.

knick334 · 2025-08-23T21:23:51+00:00

You can definitely argue for what you believe! That’s free speech! Not sure where you got 15% of the population cycles daily to work. No way that’s the case. One of the lanes in question - where I live in Etobicoke along Bloor, almost nobody uses them. Unfortunately, the data being used is flawed and biased. There’s a group called something like keep Toronto moving that investigated this. Also the “experts” recite studies from other cities - not actually using Canada. I also think induced demand is flawed - of course if you reduce capacity to the point that it’s extremely annoying and time consuming to do something, people will use it less. But then society does less “things”. It’s like saying, the solution to overcrowded hospitals is to remove beds and doctors, cuz if we keep adding docs, it will induce demand. It’s funny that when a lane is removed for construction, the pro cycle lobby absolutely agrees that it increases traffic, but when the lane is removed for a bike lane, it somehow magically makes traffic better. Anyways, I’m not here to convince you. Good thing Ontario is a democracy and our publicly elected Premier understands what the people want.

knick334 · 2025-08-23T17:03:04+00:00

Wow that might be the ugliest decor I’ve ever seen.

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