- Jay Rosehill torched Mitch Marner’s Toronto years on Leafs Morning Take
- The rant followed Vegas GM Kelly McCrimmon’s “deeper team” comments
- Read below for the full quotes and video
Mitch Marner is four wins from a Stanley Cup. Jay Rosehill picked this week to remind everyone that the Toronto version of him “was a ghost and played like a mouse.”
The former Leafs enforcer unloaded on Marner during the latest Leafs Morning Take. The trigger was Golden Knights GM Kelly McCrimmon, who said before the Final that Vegas is “deeper and a better team” than the Leafs squads Marner played on.
Rosehill was asked if McCrimmon had a point. He gave him part of it, then put the rest on Marner.
“To a degree,” Rosehill said. “I’m not saying the Leafs should have rattled off Stanley Cup after Stanley Cup, they had goaltending issues, they had defensive issues. But one of the main issues as well, go watch the hockey games. You’re playing on a line with Auston Matthews in his prime as he’s winning Rockets and Harts and putting up 69 goals in a season. And you have William Nylander on the other side, and you can’t get anything done.”
He wasn’t done.
“You can go run the tape and watch all those games in those heartbreaking series when he was a ghost and played like a mouse,” he said. “That’s why people were pissed off. Because we’re like, you’re wasting time, you’re wasting talent, and you’re wasting this era. And they never got the message.”
Catch the full video of Rosehill’s rant:
Marner himself isn’t handing his critics much ammunition. He leads all playoff scorers with 22 points and set up William Karlsson from behind the net in Tuesday’s 5-4 Game 1 win over Carolina. He capped the night by throwing himself in front of a shot in the final seconds.
Watch the video of the block that helped save Game 1:
Before the series, Marner said things are “just working” in Vegas. Nine years in Toronto got him two playoff series wins. One year in Vegas has him favored for the Conn Smythe.
Game 2 goes Thursday night in Raleigh.
