Marner’s security sliding into DMs of people is exactly the kind of thing that actually harms his reputation. Apart from the inability to spell “you’re” and “quiet”…this is why he’s treated differently. At some point, you need to hold your people accountable.
Auston Matthews' agent, Judd Moldaver, calls the five-game suspension given to Radko Gudas by @NHLPlayerSafety "laughable and preposterous" when asked for comment:
With Mitch Marner officially gone, look for the Leafs to reach out in free agency to Alex Galchenyuk and Travis Dermott to replace Marner's no look spin-o-rama playoff passes in aggregate.
If this is true that Marner rejected this offer this year, and also rejected the Rantanen trade, I have zero (0) sympathy for him. Crocodile tears. Singularly focused on getting the most he can from this org. A winner is willing to sacrifice for his team
A fan threw a beer at the Leafs on the bench.
Marner had to sidestep a thrown jersey before skating to the bench on his final shift as he was getting booed.
This. Is. Ugly.
What a way for Brendan Shanahan and Mitch Marner to go off into the night. There has been “end of an era” talk after the last couple of playoffs, but this is curtains.
Mitch Marner is a Toronto kid who should have had a banner hanging in the rafters and his name all over the Leafs’ record books.
Instead, he squeezed the organization for every last cent, never showed up when it mattered, and got booed off the ice in his final game as a Leaf.
At the very least this time there is no “got goalied”, no deserve-to-win-ometer, no blaming soft goals against goalies or no secondary scoring. No excuses.
Every Leafs fan now knows conclusively it was the culture and the core all along
Maurice: "This goalie is playing well. Sam, it's time to get out there and elbow this goalie in the head"
*Bennett hits Bobrovsky*
Maurice: "NOT THAT GOALIE!!!"