So here’s a shift by shift of Mitch Marner vs. the Czechs last week.
Monday Links:
- Terry Koshan: Mark Hunter says Maple Leafs will go ‘slow and steady’ route with Mitch Marner (Toronto Sun)
“It’s slow and steady and there is nothing wrong with that,” Hunter said. “It’s what I keep saying: ‘Don’t push too far ahead.’ We have to get him stronger — and he will get stronger. He wants to work at it.”
I - Staff: NHL All-Star and former Leaf Gus Mortson dies peacefully at home in Timmins (TimminsPress.com)
Former NHL All-Star and four-time Stanley Cup winner Gus Mortson has died. The man sometimes known as “Old Hardrock” died peacefully at the Golden Manor Home in Timmins on Saturday at the age of 90.
I - David Johnson: Score Effects, Save Percentage and Brandon Sutter (Hockey Analysis)
In the end it really dumbfounds me that people can fully accept that score effects indicate that different playing styles can impact save percentage but can’t accept that players have an ability to impact save percentages if they are given primarily offensive or defensive roles.
I - Transcript: Craig Button on Mitch Marner and William Nylander (MLHS)
If you can make plays and distribute the puck, and use as much as ice and space as you can to be dangerous, then I think that you can move into the middle of the ice offensively. Nylander and Marner qualify there.
