What wrong with "Mitch'in" Marner?

[PaulD]

We're not trying to Crack the DaVinci code here.
Marner has never been very good in playboffs. Neither has Matthews compared to his own standards.

The leafs lose every year because there are always team(s) in there division they play better than they do.

 

[647Hockey]

IMO, key reason why Leafs scoring sucks in the playoffs is because Marner being a key cog in offence setting up plays and zipping around is because he shuts down, doesn't get near the net and dmen in playoffs go into hyper mode blocking shots and passes like crazy.

In reg season, it's easy for top forwards to rack up wins and goals against crap teams. Look how easy Marner makes it look in the reg season doing this and getting 90 pts. Playoffs come around and even the first round team shuts down his fancy dancing asap.

Playoff time things change, and guys like Marner who zoom around the perimeter trying to generate goals for Matthews and JT rebounds with slick passes and shots on net dries up. And when Marner is ineffective, so goes AM and JT. Nylander is a different boat as hell still drive the net and shoot on his own. He doesn't need Marner to spark him.

 

[kp61c]

Mitch'in is out come the palyoff time. So there's nothing wrong with him, everything is par for the course.