Before the season started, we predicted that Mitch Marner would have a career season in 2021-22. Well, so far, that hasn’t been the case. Instead, he won’t even play in tonight’s game against the Colorado Avalanche because he’s tested positive and has entered the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols.
But that hasn’t been his only issue on the season. A freak practice run-in (literally) with his friend and teammate Jake Muzzin put Marner on LTIR and he wasn’t able to return until January 1, 2022.
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Even before that, Marner had not even been keeping up with the point-a-game pace that he’d established over the past few seasons. However, we believe that he can still have a career season. In this post, we’ll share why.
Our Offseason Predictions About Marner
In our earlier post from June, we wrote that Marner was a smart player with exceptional vision. He’s also a hard worker who, we believed, would…
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