Getting Marner back should give the Leafs their best opportunity to kick into high gear this season. Marner was activated off injured reserve on Wednesday afternoon and his return to the lineup marks the healthiest Toronto has been since the start of the season. With their new coach in place, this may be where the Maple Leafs launch back towards where most pre-season projections had them.Toronto’s shorthanded units have not been great this season.
There’s no doubting Marner is the team’s most important penalty killer up front, averaging 2:53 of shorthanded ice time per game that is nearly a minute more than Ilya Mikheyev. According to NaturalStatTrick.com, Marner’s six takeaways on the penalty kill not only leads the Leafs, but ranks third among forwards league-wide and is just two behind the leader, Mark Stone.
Many look at Marner’s career-best season in 2018-19, where he improved by 25 points, as a direct correlation to Tavares’s arrival as his centre. And, sure, having someone with Tavares’s talent next to you is going to give any NHL player a boost. But what’s become obvious in Marner’s absence is that as much as the winger was given a boost next to Tavares, the centre was just as big a beneficiary of playing next to Marner.
Getting Keefe behind the bench was a big step towards Dubas having everything he envisioned in place. It always felt like there was some disconnect between what Dubas wanted the Leafs to be and what Babcock wanted the Leafs to be. With Keefe in charge, there is no doubt.. With four wins in six games under the new head coach – granted three of the past four games were against inferior competition – the Leafs have mostly looked like a new, refreshed lineup.
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