Since Matthews exited with an injury three weeks ago, Mitch Marner has blossomed and Toronto is looking more like a playoff squad
On Sunday against Utah, Mitch Marner expanded on his brief for re-admittance into Toronto’s good books.
After Sunday’s win, Marner was asked if he was surprised the team had done so well without its captain. You could see him really thinking about it before settling on the political answer. It’s difficult to extend this comparison into the playoffs. In his nine years as a Leaf, Matthews has only missed two postseason games. But the Leafs did win them both.
There’s no easy way to prove that a great player doesn’t belong on your team, which is why no one ever tries. We treat athletes like widgets in this way. If he scored there, he should score here. If she won there, she should win here. You could say the same thing of the rest of Matthews’s Leafs cohort – Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares. Except that none of those guys areSomebody has to be to blame if a team this tooled up keeps blowing it. After you’ve fired two coaches and two GMs, maybe the first person with their arm raised should be the guy turning into a US$13-million pumpkin in the playoffs.
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