Auston Matthews may get many of the headlines, but he isn’t doing this alone.



Increasingly, the player teammates are gushing about after games is his sidekick, William Nylander.



After a terrific two-goal, three-point performance Monday in beating the league’s top team, Nylander is on pace for 64 points — a three-point improvement over what was an impressive rookie campaign a year ago.



He has 13 points in his last 10 games — and every single one came at even strength. Nylander is now tied for 12th in the entire NHL in even-strength points, tied with superstars like Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos and Vladimir Tarasenko.



Nylander’s strength is that he has many of them: his passing, skating, stickhandling and shooting are all elite.



“He must have worked on that when he was younger — and I see him working on it all the time in practice,” linemate Zach Hyman said of Nylander’s shot, which...