Marner’s Surge Puts Matthews Under The Toronto Microscope

Mitch Marner’s success is the kind of thing that gets noticed in Toronto whether people want it to or not. When one half of the star pair starts looking sharp, the questions around the other half get louder and a lot less polite. Auston Matthews has carried enough of the load to know how this works, and the pressure in this market never really leaves the room. In Toronto, a hot stretch by one pillar can quickly become a referendum on the one standing next to him.