More than anyone on the Maple Leafs bench, the naysayers have targeted Mitch Marner during the club’s offensive vanishing act. But the team is doing everything they can to help ease the pressure on him. (lukefoxjukebox)
Asked Wednesday about the damage an errant Ian Cole stick has done to Mitch Marner’s smile, the rugged and scared Simmonds flashed his own tooth-deprived grin.“He looks a little bit funny with the one big tooth and the other jagged one there. It just happens. You get in the corners, you get some elbows, sticks, whatever, fists. I think he's doing OK with it.”
“We’re not really listening to what the naysayers are saying. You can say whatever you want, but we’ve got full belief in ourselves and the guys who sit next to us.” “I mean, I don't think we can be concerned. We're still early in the season,” Marner said Saturday in Pittsburgh, the last time he met with reporters. “[If] we get frustrated, it's not gonna help anyone. It's not gonna help our team.
Nathan MacKinnon won a silver medal alongside Marner with Canada’s national team at the 2017 world championships and skated on a line with him during a BioSteel camp in Montreal in the off-season. Coach Sheldon Keefe has pulled plenty of levers over the past week in attempt to get more from No. 16.The coach has tried the stick:
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