Jason Brough

Through the early stages of both comparative finals where everybody thought that the NBA finals were going to far outshine the Stanley Cup final.

The Stanley Cup final kind of stood up for itself and said, no, no, watch what we're going to put forth.

This has been a beauty.

And it is truly remarkable that.

what he's done here for a guy like for all of the narratives and they've all been so well written right now.

You feel like you're not really adding anything to it, but for a guy that when you look at some of the stats and some of the clips of his previous play in the playoffs, there is a, there is a decided difference.

I don't know what to tell you.

Without question.

And some of the play looked at times confused, at times listless.

I don't think that it was ever like people are like he wasn't trying.

I'm like, that's not it.

That's not it.

It's not an effort thing.

He wanted it as badly as anyone.

He's a hardwired, competitive, professional athlete.

I think the difference in Toronto was the crushing weight of expectation, as opposed to this, where you can just tell he's playing freer.

And that second, I mean, that hat trick in just over six minutes...

on Saturday was that puts you in a pantheon reserved for a few of the greats in the game.

And that's where Marner is right now, the level that he's playing at.

Fairly dramatic differences between the two, by the way.