The Golden Knights led the NHL in offensive zone time percentage on the power play (62.1) last season. Marner ranked in the 77th percentile (60.2 percent) among forwards in that category last season, was in the 91st percentile (62.2 percent) at his position in 2022-23 and finished fifth among all players in the entire NHL in 2021-22 (63.6 percent).

For the nine years of magic you brought on and off the ice. Thank you, Mitchy!” That was the message sent to former Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner on Tuesday, hours after word first broke that Marner was being traded to the Vegas Golden Knights.

The Golden Knights are rolling the dice on Mitch Marner. The Vegas hockey team pulled off a deal with the Maple Leafs to acquire Marner in a sign-and-trade that gave the hockey star an eight-year deal worth $12 million per season before shipping him off to Sin City, according to multiple reports.