What Is Fueling Mitch Marner’s Playoff Surge?

Mitch Marner has flipped the postseason script again, and that always sends people hunting for the real reason behind the run. Some of it is confidence, some of it is deployment, and some of it is the old playoff reality that elite players stop asking for the spotlight and just take it. The interesting part is how much of this surge looks repeatable and how much is Marner simply seizing the moment the way top-end forwards are supposed to.