Mitch Marner’s Unexpected Journey After Maple Leafs: What’s Really Behind the Silence?
The Marners dressed as characters from the Vegas-themed film, “The Hangover”: Mitch as Stu, his wife, Stephanie, as Zach Galifianakis’ zany Alan, and Miles as baby Carlos, sunglasses and all, “which was hilarious,” Marner said.
Growing pains were probably inevitable. They are for most players joining a new team.
Marner was so rooted in Toronto, and to the Maple Leafs, that a split was bound to be even harder.
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Feelings haven’t healed just yet either. Asked if he would still cheer for the Leafs, the team he grew up rooting for long before he was drafted in 2015, the team he became a star for, the team he grew up with, the team where some of his closest friends in hockey remain, Marner said no.
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