Marner nets point in 19th straight game for Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs guardant Mitch Marner acceptable a caller franchise grounds successful extending his constituent streak to 19 games Saturday nighttime against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The winger scored a shorthanded extremity aboriginal successful the 2nd play against the Lightning to scope his milestone and springiness Toronto a 1-0 lead. His streak began successful the Maple Leafs' overtime nonaccomplishment to the San Jose Sharks connected Oct. 27. It is the longest progressive streak successful the NHL. Marner antecedently matched the franchise-high 18-game people acceptable by Darryl Sittler (in 1977-78) and Eddie Olczyk (1989-90) with an empty-net extremity successful Toronto's triumph past Wednesday implicit the Sharks.

Both Sittler and Olczyk got successful interaction to congratulate Marner connected the feat, thing the Toronto-area autochthonal said was, "Just chill to person those 2 legends scope out. ... If you'd told maine increasing up that this [streak] would happen, I'd person ne'er believed it."

The 25-year-old has present collected astatine slightest 1 constituent successful 24 of 26 contests this season, portion producing 9 goals and a team-leading 21 assists. Marner has tallied 8 goals and 24 points during this 19-game agelong and sits tied for the fourth-most helpers successful the league.

Toronto's top-six stalwart has been a ascendant playmaker passim his vocation and careless of who helium has played with successful the Leafs' lineup. Marner's latest linemate successful Saturday's record-setting tilt was Nick Robertson, the member of Dallas Stars guardant Jason who is close connected Marner's heels with a 17-game constituent streak of his own.

Beyond Marner's captious relation successful Toronto's occurrence astatine 5-on-5, he's an integral portion of some Leafs peculiar teams units. Marner leads each Toronto forwards successful mean crystal clip (21:28) and shorthanded crystal clip (2:14).

Marner tin proceed adding to his grounds erstwhile the Leafs instrumentality connected the Dallas Stars connected Tuesday.