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Auston Matthews has a frequent on-bench behavior that not everyone is a fan of.
The Toronto Maple Leafs' captain likes looking at an iPad when he concludes his shifts.
Clearly, he's doing a quick film review of what's happening on the ice. It's not inherently bad.
But it also isolates Matthews a bit and potentially could prevent him from interacting with his teammates or seeing things that are happening in the game while he's waiting to go back in.
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Former Maple Leafs player Jay Rosehill recently laid into Matthews for doing this.
"Look at Auston Matthews," Rosehill said on Leafs Morning Take. "Like, is the iPad thing normal? Like, I have seen others, I've never seen a guy look at a f--ing iPad so much. It's like an addition... He's just like, give me the iPad. Give me the screen."
Rosehill added "that's kind of a microcosm of how he operates. It's nothing that's getting the boys together. It's nothing that's thinking about others."
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Matthews is still a great player on the ice, but amid the Maple Leafs struggles, it could be up to the captain to help bring the squad together.
Toronto did win Saturday night, after Rosehill's comments, with a 3-2 victory in a shootout in Vancouver.
Maybe that'll be what they need to turn things around. It's probably more fun to watch a win on the iPad, anyway, rather than the six-game losing streak that had preceded it.
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