Auston Matthews wants Toronto Maple Leafs to pick a new goal song: ‘MAYBE A LITTLE BIEBS’

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When Auston Matthews scores his first goal for the Maple Leafs this season at home in Toronto he’d prefer that the club find a new celebratory song.

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Since the 2018 season, the Buds have used the Hall & Oates’ You Make My Dreams (Come True) to amp up the crowd every time the home team scores a goal. The track replaced Enforcer by Monster Truck.

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The track has been polarizing; The Sporting News ranked it as the NHL’s sixth-best goal song in 2020, but the Tampa Bay Times said it had Lightning fans reaching for the “mute button” during last spring’s first-round playoffs.

When Sportsnet’s Tim Micallef suggested that the crew could look to Matthews’ pal Justin Bieber — who dedicated his 2021 track Hold On to the boys in blue and helped design last season’s best-selling Fiipside Jersey — for a new song, the NHL’s leading goal scorer agreed.

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“Yeah, maybe a little Biebs,” the Hart Trophy winner replied.

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“I wouldn’t mind hearing something different, maybe switching it up,” Matthews told Micallef during an appearance on the Tim & Friends show. “Change it up. Switch it up. Maybe see if we can get something else going and go on a nice little run. I’m always open to change but if they want to keep the same one going, I’m fine as well.”

In an interview with Complex Canada earlier this year, Matthews, who admitted having “Bieber fever” when he was younger, said that his relationship with pop superstar was “not one of those ‘celebrity whatever’ relationships.”

“It’s a true friendship. I know he cares about me a lot and the same goes for myself with him,” Matthews told the outlet. “He’s somebody that I know I can lean on for just about anything; he’s someone to talk to, to vent to, or just kinda B.S. with. It’s pretty cool to have somebody like that in your corner.”

But after suffering another first-round playoff exit last spring, if we’re talking Bieber tracks that might fit as a new goal song for the Leafs, might we suggest: Never Say Never?

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