Quoting: HattrickKane88
Can we just stop thinking that Mitch Marner is an elite winger? He’s nowhere near that & is the most vastly overpaid player in the game. Honestly, he’s just not built for the NHL. He’s small, weak & soft. He always gets knocked over & refuses to hit & fight. He doesn’t have the talent to make up for his poor physique. In a few seasons he’ll be out of the league. All he does is throw the puck into a random area & makes Auston Matthews do all the work for him. That’s how he earns his points, most secondary assists. The Leafs were better off giving his roster spot to Nick Robertson or Jeremy Bracco, could’ve saved them 11 million as well. He’s just a more expensive version of Conor Sheary.
gonna repeat this again:
Patty Kane is a small guy who racks up assists and has played with great players like toews and panarin, does that make him bad? Absolutely not. 94 point 22 year olds don't grow on trees. Its not a coincidence that every single player he plays with puts up career numbers (or close to it), especially in goals, every single year. For when u say that's not true:
Rookie Year:
Bozak: 55 pts. High: 49 pts
JVR: 29g/62pts. High: came w Marner the next year but we'll get there
Sophomore:
JVR:36g/54 pts
Kadri: 32g (tied for career high), 55 pts (2nd highest. also missed 2 games)
Y3:
Hyman: 21g (tied with again Marner next year), 41 pts (career high)
Tavares: 47g (>prev. high by 10g), 88pts (career high)
Y4:
Hyman 21g (tied from last year w Marner, highest g/pg by a lot), 37pts (highest p/pg by a lot)
Matthews: 47g(career high and on pace for many more), 80pts (high and on pace for many more)
has played with some pretty good lines, and some pretty average lines, but clear that he drives play and makes his teammates much better.
Marner himself:
61 pts
69pts
94pts
67pts (on pace for 93 in an 82 game season)
Defensive game has also been improving. Now a valuable penalty killer.