Marner is the Leafs Franchise player. Wrong
The Team is built around him. Wrong
He’s the main playmaker.
He leads the Team in Points. Only when you consider that he has played more games than Matthews who has beaten him in P/GP the last 2 seasons
He leads the team in power play points and also leads the team in short handed points. Irrelevant on whether a player is a Franchise Player or not
He’s also the leafs best penalty killer. Wrong
He does it all like a franchise player does.
Generational: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Crosby.
Franchise: Yzerman, Sakic, Forsberg, and Malkin.
Great: Nieuwendyk, Gainey, and I'll say....Kopitar.
Good: RoR, Brind'Amour, Bergeron, and maybe Point/Stamkos.
Just thinking of cup winning Centres in the past 30 plus years.
I have Bergeron as franchise atleast. 2-way beast, who plays 1C and has a bag of Selkes + Stanley cup.
Yeah, we do. Mat Barzal is nowhere close to being a franchise guy.Marner Scheifele Eichel Barzal Pettersson Stone
We might have different definitions of 'franchise player' though.