Marner’s Playoff Case Gets Louder - And The Room Knows It

Mitch Marner is back in the middle of the kind of playoff debate that follows a star winger around like a bad scouting report. The question is not just whether he is producing, but whether he is producing enough to sit at the top of the postseason conversation no matter how the rest of the bracket shakes out. This is the sort of talk that always gets louder when the games get tighter and the margins get crueler, and Marner’s name is right there in the center of it.