News about Mitch Marner

Not since Boston and Los Angeles in 2020 has the sports world's attention and curiosity been so concentrated on one area of America as Florida in 2023. The Boston Red Sox were reigning World Series champions, the New England Patriots were Super Bowl champions, and the Boston Bruins had reached the Stanley Cup Finals by the summer of 2019. The following year was devoted to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers snapped a 32-year championship drought ended and the Lakers claimed their first NBA title in the bubble.

Many hockey fans were not expecting a second all-Sun Belt Stanley Cup Final in NHL history. Boston was the best regular season squad in the league's history going into the playoffs. They were knocked out by the worst team that made it in. Canada wished that they would win their first Stanley Cup since 1993. Rather, the Jets were quickly dismissed and the Maple Leafs and Oilers' star power was snuffed out.

One of the referees had an accidental assistance. A rookie goalie getting off to a rocky start in his first playoff appearance got off to a smattering success. And there was no fear of panic. Toronto is going home for another game, not to start the offseason. Joseph Woll stopped 24 shots in his first playoff appearance, Mitch Marner and William Nylander had the goals, and the Maple Leafs staved off elimination by defeating the Florida Panthers 2-1 in Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series Wednesday night.

Although the basketball world is waiting for the results of Tuesday's NBA Draft Lottery to find who will be taking 7-foot-4 French sensation Victor Wembanyama, the hockey world is equally focused on Monday's NBA Draft Lottery due to a similar promising talent. After leading the country to gold at the world junior hockey championship in January, Connor Bedard, Canada's latest hockey prodigy, is this year's draft class. Since then, NHL teams have been watching the lottery on Monday to see which team will have the opportunity to draft him in June's draft. Anaheim (2.5), Pittsburgh (0.5), and Calgary (0.5), the NHL's worst team in 2022-23, has a 18.5 percent chance at the top pick, followed by Columbus (13.5%), Montreal (13.5%), Chicago (11.5), Washington (5.5), and Calgary (10.6), the NBA's worst team in 2022-23, and San Jose (0.5), Edmonton (0.5), and Calgary (0.5), Winnipeg (0.5), Columbus (192.5), and Ottawa (0.5).

Consider the Toronto Maple Leafs as the most complete NHL elite to be completely confounded by the eighth-seeded Florida Panthers. The Panthers defeated the Leafs 3-2 in Toronto on Thursday, giving them a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals following their first-round upset of the top-seeded Boston Bruins. Sheldon Keefe, the Leafs' head coach, was particularly worried about the Panthers' second-period results, in which the Panthers scored two unanswered goals. 'Disappointing' Keefe said, 'Baffling.' We didn't make those mistakes one time in the last series [first round against Tampa].'

The NHL has revealed a list of the first 32 names to be chosen for the 2023 All-Star Game, which will be hosted in South Florida. One player from each squad has been chosen to compete in this year's festivities, which have traditionally featured a skills competition and games between divisions. During the next 12 days, the NHL also revealed that three new players (two skaters and a goalie) would be voted by a fan vote.

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare drilled Mitch Marner into the boards with the Leafs leading 1-0 in the dying seconds of the first game of the season. Marner's allies responded to his defense, including Bunting, who took a piece of Anthony Cirelli and Mikhail Sergachev. Dan Kelly, a linesman, rushed to rescue him and usher him into the tunnels of Toronto. Kelly was very successful in getting Bunting off the ice, with him almost causing the player to fall nearly every time.