skated as linemates at a Montreal camp; some pre-Olympic practice. MacKinnon half-joked he didn’t like it, because they won every game. “Way to keep it fair,” he laughed. The Avalanche forward, by the way, spent a lot of time on a line with Mitch Marner.were scheduled to spend a week practising together in Arizona, but that was ruined by the centre’s wrist surgery. They did send each other video clips with ideas on how to “be better in small areas,” according to Marner.
He’s got an assassin’s mentality to him, I don’t think he worries too much what others think. The team has asked Marner to gravitate in that direction, not let what others say affect him so much. There’s a very fine line between using it to properly motivate you and letting it smother you. “I’m trying to block out that noise,” the winger said. Added MacKinnon, who is a big fan: “I said some words I probably shouldn’t say here…From the outside I think, he just can’t care” what is said about him.
“That’s what you guys heard? Wow,” he replied. “It wasn’t that, I can tell you that. I don’t think anything happened, it was just a bad year. Nothing clicked. No one could get on the same page with the style we wanted to play. The season of drama. Dubois trade not supposed to happen until the end of the year from what I was hearing…once that happens, it’s kinda tough to bring it back. We had new guys come on, it just didn’t seem to work.