Mitch Marner Addresses Possibility of Final Game with Maple Leafs After Team Meltdown
It's a possibility that Mitch Marner may have played his last home game with the Maple Leafs, a potential outcome he was asked about following their Game 5 loss.
It has the potential to be one of the major storylines of the summer, especially if a fateful event takes place on Friday night.
The Toronto Maple Leafs find themselves down a game against the divisional foe Florida Panthers, having lost a 6-1 final on home ice on Wednesday night. They're now one game away from their season ending, while the Panthers are a win away from a 3rd straight trip to the Eastern Conference Final.
The Maple Leafs were even booed off the ice by the fans who hadn't already gotten a head start on the traffic.
Could Wednesday night have been the swan song for Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner, who is without a contract for next season? He said it's something he's not thinking about.
No, no thoughts of that at all. Like I said, reset. It's obviously not the spot that we wanted to be in, but you can't do anything about it. We knew this was going to be a rollercoaster of a ride, you know it's not going to be easy. Like I said, we have to have the mindset now to go into Florida, take it shift by shift, and win a hockey game.
When asked why the Maple Leafs had no response to Florida's attack, Marner said that he felt they didn't reply adequately enough.
I thought tonight was the 1st night that we just didn't reply well or play our game, and when you do that against a team like that over there, they're going to make you pay.
Both Marner and teammate John Tavares are up for new deals in the summer.
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