{"id":390348,"date":"2026-01-04T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390348\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:09:14","slug":"what-islanders-no-1-pick-matthew-schaefer-accomplished-in-two-goal-performance-vs-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390348\/","title":{"rendered":"What Islanders&#8217; No. 1 Pick Matthew Schaefer Accomplished In Two-Goal Performance vs. Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELMONT, NY &#8212;  On Saturday night, New York Islanders&#8217; No. 1 overall pick Matthew Schaefer scored twice, tying the game at 2-2 in the third period before eventually playing the overtime hero.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like every game, Schaefer is putting himself in the record books. Here&#8217;s what he accomplished, per NHL Live Stats:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer scored his 11th goal of the season and passed Ryan Pulock (10 in 2017-18) for the third most goals by and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters?aggregate=0&amp;reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=19171918&amp;seasonTo=20252026&amp;gameType=2&amp;position=D&amp;playerPlayedFor=franchise.22&amp;isRookie=1&amp;sort=goals&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Islanders rookie defensemen;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Islanders rookie defensemen<\/a> in a single campaign. The only blueliners with more are Denis Potvin (17 in 1973-74) and Vladimir Malakhov (14 in 1992-93). <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer scored the overtime winner in his first game against the Maple Leafs, his favorite team that he watched while growing up in Hamilton, Ont.* <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schaefer became the first defenseman in NHL history to record two multi-goal games as an 18-year-old. Only four others had one: Zach Bogosian, Phil Housley, Bobby Orr and King Clancy. <\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyiskinny.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Hornick&#039;s The Skinny:;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eric Hornick&#8217;s The Skinny:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer&#8217;s two goals give the Isles 23 rookie goals this season, tying Montreal for the NHL lead.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer (18 years, 120 days) is the youngest defenseman in NHL history to record two multi-goal games; Zach Bogosian (19 years, 106 days) held the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer is also the youngest defenseman to reach twelve goals; Phil Housley did it at 18 years, 325 days). Since World War II, only three forwards have done it at a younger age (Sidney Crosby, Brian Bellows and Jordan Staal).<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer is the sixth NHL rookie defenseman with at least two overtime goals in a season; Shayne Gostisbehere holds the record with 4; Schaefer is tied-2nd with his two overtime winners.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer is the youngest player in NHL history with multiple overtime goals (26 days younger than Sidney Crosby); Crosby is the only other 18-year-old with multiple overtime goals (he had three).<\/p>\n<p>Only three Islander defensemen have recorded more than two career overtime goals (Thomas Hickey-5, Roman Hamrlik and Ryan Pulock-3). Hickey and Hamrlik are the only other Islander defensemen to score two overtime goals in a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELMONT, NY &#8212; On Saturday night, New York Islanders&#8217; No. 1 overall pick Matthew Schaefer scored twice, tying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,374,3328,159,5190,5189,4,15600],"class_list":["post-390348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-stefen-rosner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115837466289482918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}