Marner Enjoys SCF Run After Hockey’s Darkest Stretch

Marner is heading into the Stanley Cup Final with a little more perspective than your average star winger, and that matters when the pressure starts chewing on everybody in sight. The story around him is bigger than goals and assists, because the road here has not exactly been smooth or comfortable. He has lived through the noise, the doubt, and the ugly stretches that can make a player disappear under this market.