Marner’s Final Fade Draws Heat as Leafs Questions Linger

Mitch Marner is back in the crosshairs after a quiet Stanley Cup Final finish, and that is the kind of optics that travel fast in this league. When a top-end forward goes missing in the biggest games, the postmortem usually gets ugly, and the chatter around Toronto never stays quiet for long. This one is less about a single bad night than the familiar frustration of a player who still has to answer for the moments everybody remembers.