TORONTO — Wearing a white T-shirt, his Blue Jays baseball cap perched backwards on his head, a fatigued Mitch Marner looked like a 15-year-old teen as he walked through the arrival gate at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday evening.
Don’t let appearances fool you though. To the naked eye, he might still look like a boy. But he plays like a man, as his teammates and opponents at the recently completed world hockey championship can attest.
Just 24 hours earlier, the young Maple Leafs forward and his Canada teammates suffered a gut wrenching 2-1 loss to Sweden in a shootout, a ridiculous format when it comes to deciding the gold medal winner at the world championship.