{"id":8034,"date":"2025-05-01T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/8034\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:42:15","slug":"leafs-mitch-marner-has-entered-unforgiving-territory-with-dismal-showing-across-17-elimination-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/8034\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs&#8217; Mitch Marner Has Entered Unforgiving Territory With Dismal Showing Across 17 Elimination Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leafs&#8217; Mitch Marner Has Entered Unforgiving Territory With Dismal Showing Across 17 Elimination Game <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/555259.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mitch Marner's tenure in Toronto may be coming to an end\" title=\"Mitch Marner's tenure in Toronto may be coming to an end\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAs the Maple Leafs look to exorcize first-round demons again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Mitch-Marner-21905\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Mitch Marner profile and hockey stats\">Mitch Marner<\/a> has put forth yet another disastrous performance in an elimination game.<\/p>\n<p>Another elimination game, another disappearing act from the Leafs&#8217; Core 4 was the story from Game 5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 marked the 17th elimination game for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/William-Nylander-41905\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"William Nylander profile and hockey stats\">William Nylander<\/a> and Marner. While much has been made of their performances in elimination games, Marner is the one that has been struggling most to perform.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander has been among the most productive of the Core 4 with elimination on the line with 13 points in 17 games. Marner, on the other hand, has just 5 points in 17 elimination games.<\/p>\n<p>After an excellent start to the series, the Marner of old reappeared in Game 5 and if he and the rest of the Core 4 are unable to find another level to their games on Thursday, Saturday could very well be the final time Marner wears a Maple Leafs jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on MapleLeafsDaily<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>19 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01341 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Leafs&#8217; Mitch Marner Has Entered Unforgiving Territory With Dismal Showing Across 17 Elimination Games<\/p>\n<p>Will the Leafs run it back if they fall to the Senators?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/nhl-team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/Javascript:void(save_clic(\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/157.png\" alt=\"pub\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" defer=\"defer\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMAPLELEAFSDAILY.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleleafsdaily.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leafs&#8217; Mitch Marner Has Entered Unforgiving Territory With Dismal Showing Across 17 Elimination Game Photo credit: Bob DeChiara-USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3486,2156,5,456,533,4,104,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-8034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-elimination-game","9":"tag-game-5","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-leafs-news-and-rumours","12":"tag-mitch-marner","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114432871204634550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}