Late in Game 7, when we all knew it was hopelessly lost, Sportsnet showed a close-up of a very sad Mitch Marner. That’s when I turned it off. I made the dramatic pronouncement that they don’t deserve a witness to their pain, they were just that bad. I haven’t changed my mind on that.
We have to get some things out of the way first. A lot of what we all feel about how a player played in a playoff series is about shooting percentage. Did he score, in other words, or in Marner’s case, did Auston Matthews.