 it is time to test out that 91 Austin Matthews yo what's going on leaf nation it's leafer back again and welcome back to the channel today we're doing our first debut video of NHL 22 and today uh you know our first debut video had to be that x-factor Austin Matthews and uh let's just say we got into a 91 so as you can see here I did have based Austin Matthews and I got him from uh the market I bought him for 90 or 100k flat and I figured I'd buy him for 100k so instead of giving 100 uh thousand coins away and just getting half back if I wanted to refund the tier I can get his base card and hopefully make the money back not that I'm ever gonna refund it but that was my thinking process behind this so as you can see here I'm upgrading Matthews up to an 83 uh all the tiers when I was first upgrading him the new set did not drop so I was only able to upgrade him to an 88 which you can see I'm doing right here um so yeah just dude I love the x-factor system this year huge w for me amen uh the power-up collectibles helped a lot it was nice to have a bunch of gold players to just trade in and make these power-up collectibles so as you can see here we have him up to an 88 we had that uh base Austin Matthews to trade in and uh yeah that card looks unreal the card looks amazing and I'm so happy he's on my team so now you can see here I am now upgrading him this is when the new event just dropped to his 89 we had a little bit of struggles here making some power-up collectibles but after ripping some packs and buying some players we were able to upgrade him to his 91 and do like this card looks absolutely unreal like I said the the card art's unreal um and like style wise this card looks amazing so right now we have him up to a 90 and in this last clip here you can see we're gonna purchase him up to a 91 with three more power-up collectibles beautiful thing these power-up collectibles are and as you can see here that is the 91 Austin Matthews so let me show you guys uh what the team is looking like um with the new 91 Matthews and what players are going to be playing with them and uh the rest of the team as well so that is right after upgrading Matthews and getting Gilmore this is what the team is looking like it's this team's unreal man we got Jack Eichel Austin Matthews and Evgeny Malkin on the first line we got William Mielander Mark Shifley and Taylor Hall on the second line then we got Primetime Nasim Khadri with Doug Gilmore and Mika Zabinajad and the fourth line is Forsberg Barkov and Christian Dvorak on defense the first pairing being Adam Fox and Thomas Shabbat who we did pull in the last pack opening video uh Jakob Slavin uh Seth Jones and then Tyson Berry and O.E.L and then in that we have team of the week Freddie Anderson now looking at the synergies we do have activated we have Fly the Zone which gives plus four durability plus two faceoffs plus four offensive awareness and plus two speed Matthews Barkov and Shifley we do then have magician activated as well three agility three deaking three durability three puck control to Eichel Slavin Shabbat and O.E.L then we have protector activated as well plus four defensive awareness deaking shop locking slap shot accuracy for Nylander Slavin Shifley and then Heart and Soul is activated gives us a plus three two balance endurance faceoffs and shop locking for Matthews Khadri Jones Gilmore and Dvorak so some pretty good synergies look at Matthews's card here looks insane plus five faceoffs gives him an 86 um 85 shop locking 90 durability 99 offensive awareness 90 speed 92 endurance 96 balance man this card's gonna be unreal look at his shooting I can't wait to try him out and before we do that it's time to do the thing uh you know what Austin you earned it buddy there you go our captain first time being named this year let's hop into a game let's try on Matthews and let's try out this whole team all right we found our opponent he's got OV Matthews Malcolm let's try it out uh Big Bad Ducks I think was his team name Big Bad Ducks a pretty dope team name let's try to get it uh let's let's try and see what we can do I'm excited to see Matthews my first time trying him out I'd even try him out at an 88 so this is my first time trying him out as a 91 uh I'm interested to see how he does man let's let's go I see Austin first shot I already handcuffed and carry price we like to see that the other hall back to Shabbat Thomas Shabbat oh Thomas Shabbat his first shot on goal in his debut and he snipes the top right corner what a shot assisted from hot from Holland Shifley good first shift for Thomas Shabbat there we love to see it what a shot over to Gilmore we tried we tried that was a force and a half if I've ever seen one good poke he gets it right back though the vintage I did not pick that up well and that's a goal I don't like those 50 50 puck battles it is what it is it's a 1-1 hockey game good goal man I can't uh I can't fault him for that it was a good goal all right we got the Matthews line out here he's ready to go he had a very very short first shift so let's see what he can do here oh my god that was his x-factor you even heard it dude we almost sniped it there on price we're gonna try to kick this to the hall maybe go across the knee lander all right we did not aim that well still got the puck though OEL over to Tyson Barry what a deflection what a save from price hey take it he's gonna give us the wing we'll take it oh good poke killing him in the draws all he's doing is tying up I think he's got to watch a faceoff video or something here over to Forsberg oh nice try with so many people with the same number on this team I thought that was Eichel oh awesome we read that perfectly oh my god I wanted that x-factor with the toe drag and the shock and all we couldn't get it there after one it's 1-1 somehow and looking at the stats here I mean yeah it is what it is all right we need a big period here from Austin Matthews he's been getting his chances with that toe drag shot I'm liking the way he feels he's fast has a great shot he's just got to nip the corner here I have a feeling he's gonna get a goal this game nice little play there Thomas Shabbat wants another one dude Shabbat has an unreal shot like actually there we go take it to the net Mark Shifley what a save from price dude dang oh dude I thought I was gonna be able to just get it by him there get that across dog Gilmore oh my god this guy hasn't learned don't let Shabbat shoot Shabbat actually has an unreal shot I'm a huge fan of this team of the week card let's go Austin move move move my players are just getting in my way not only his but but my players too Matthews nice try end of two here and I'm still not sure how it's 1-1 look at these stats shots are 14-9 I have 10 minutes and 17 seconds I'm gonna talk to is 254 unreal all right biggest period for my Austin Matthews here he's gonna get the GWG I can smell it dangerous territory my friend oh my god that almost went in how did Kerry pray save that Austin again trying to nip a corner with Austin it's not happening dude it's not happening and we're losing two on somehow this is unreal I'm absolutely dominating absolutely dominating and we're down to one this is insane for some reason I can't score this year I don't know what it is I can't generate anything offensively we need a huge step up from our new players here huge step up oh Austin Austin no way it's Kerry price saving these shoot that oh please just trickle in at this point I will take anything like my god all right we were down to the last minute here we need something here offensively Willie oh my goodness across shively nothing all right we're taking the time out here get get the Matthews line on get Shabbat's line over the boards we need something here look at these stats oh my god I can't believe it I actually just can't believe that I'm losing this game right now can't believe it huge defensive play from Matthews we love to see it and now we create offense from it let's go let's go Gino Thomas Shabbat Thomas Shabbat oh my god this card's unreal let's go Eichel hold it hold it no we played it oh my goodness we lost that game I can I still cannot believe we just lost that game I mean like looking at the stats here realistically realistically we should win games like this but hey it happens Shabbat with a goal I absolutely loved his team of the week card great debut from him Taylor Hall played good as usual Shifley played well as usual um Gilmore didn't really know what it's too much um Austin Matthews I really did enjoy yet eight shots that game um he got robbed a couple times we tried out his x factor a couple times uh shock and awe and uh we got robbed with him but I really enjoyed this Matthews card he played really well for me it's a 91 Matthews you saw his stats he's gonna be unreal regardless just sucks that he didn't score and it sucks that we just came up on a hot gold tender but it is what it is sometimes you lose games like this when you really shouldn't it's it's just the way it goes man anyways guys that is it for today's video hopefully you guys did enjoy I really enjoyed testing on Austin Matthews and Doug Gilmore and Thomas Shabbat it was a very fun game um I know I lost but I still had fun playing it and like that's really rare for me to say like I hate losing yet again who doesn't hate losing but yeah anyways that's going to be it for today's video if you guys did enjoy be sure to drop a like on it if you guys are new around here make sure to the subscribe button down below we're on the road to four thousand subscribers we're just we're not too far off of it guys so if you're new around here make sure to hit the subscribe button we upload videos three times a week here anyways guys that is it for today's video thank you guys very much for watching and I'll talk to you later peace