Unlucky at 13.

Auston Matthews' much-publicized scoring outage reached 13 games Tuesday night, as the Toronto Maple Leafs fell by a score of 2-1 for a second consecutive game, this time at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Matthews directed four shots on goal with seven attempts, boosting a shot total surpassed only by Brent Burns, Vladmir Tarasenko, and Alex Ovechkin. But because Cam Ward put padding on each, the No. 1 draft pick has now gone four weeks without scoring.

In the locker room afterward, and sticking with the theme of the ill-fated No. 13, Matthews was asked if he needed to change his own luck.

"I'm not crazy like that I guess. Not too superstitious," Matthews told Jonas Siegel of the Canadian Press. "I have my own things that I do, that I've done since I was younger and I kind of just stick with it. It's worked for me until this point so why change."

Though his shooting percentage dropped another couple decimal points to 8.5 percent, Matthews' performance continues to support the underlying data that he recently admitted to paying attention to. Matthews finished at almost 60 percent possession - best among Maple Leafs.

These signs and more continue to point to Matthews breaking out sooner than later. But his teammates don't seem to need revealing data to pick up on that.

"I'm sure he's going to crack this very soon," Mitch Marner told TSN's Mark Masters. "And when that happens it's going to be scary."

Copyright © 2016 Score Media Ventures Inc. All rights reserved. Certain content reproduced under license.