The Toronto Maple Leafs have paired Mitch Marner with Auston Matthews almost constantly for the last couple of years.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have two of the best players in the world playing together on one line, but it’s worth asking if this is the best way to deploy them.
In the NHL, elite players tend to make other players who are not elite into players who can at least become “elite” when they are paired with the original star. This is not unlike a Power Rangers situation, and you could see it in action when Michael Bunting put up the 5v5 numbers of a Franchise Player when paired with Matthews and Marner.