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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 5069470, member: 2350"] There are generally two ways to construct a team. One is for the regular season in which you play a different team every game, half of whom are in the bottom half of the league, and none of who, make the playoffs. I call that "the nice game: skate, pass, shoot." Fast, higher scoring teams dominating the middle of the ice with speed. Think: Toews/Kane era Blackhawks. The other way is to have a bigger, somewhat slower team that keeps the puck along the boards and in the corners - out of the middle of the ice - and prospers in the heavier going that happens in the playoffs. Think: Sutter era LA kings. Marner seems to be more disposed to the former style. A problem the Leafs have is the media gurgles and slobbers over him like he's something approaching McDavid or MacKinnon, and the fans seem to have bought in. [/QUOTE]