Mitch Marner Fires Golden Knights Into West Final With 7th Goal as Vegas Wins Game 6, 5-1
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Updated · Fox News · May 16
Mitch Marner Fires Golden Knights Into West Final With 7th Goal as Vegas Wins Game 6, 5-1
9 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 16
Just over a minute into Game 6, Mitch Marner scored his seventh goal of the playoffs and helped Vegas beat Anaheim 5-1 to reach the Western Conference Final.
Marner has 18 postseason points—three more than Quinn Hughes and Kirill Kaprizov—making him the NHL playoff scoring leader in his first run with the Golden Knights.
The surge follows Marner's sign-and-trade move from Toronto last summer, after years of criticism over his playoff production with the Maple Leafs.
Vegas now advances to face Colorado, while Marner's breakout adds to the pattern of former Toronto stars finding postseason success after leaving.
How did Vegas unlock Mitch Marner's playoff potential when Toronto consistently failed for years?
With the top draft pick, should the Maple Leafs finally rebuild or retool around their aging core?