Marner's Game 3 Surge Has Everyone Reaching For Superlatives

Mitch Marner's second period in Game 3 is the kind of stretch that sends hockey people straight to the oversized label drawer. Fans love the hyperbole, but when a star takes over that completely, the chatter usually says as much about the moment as the performance. The question is not whether he was excellent - it is how much that kind of burst changes the feel of the series. Once a player starts bending the game that hard, everybody else has to scramble to catch up.