WWYDW: Where would you put Marner in the lineup?

Mitch Marner has six points in nine games, a statement which is pretty #nice for a 20-year old player.

But Mitch Marner isn’t any twenty year old player: he’s Mitch freakin’ Marner. He’s a guy who scored 61 points in his rookie season. He’s a fourth overall pick.  And briefly, he was/(is?) a fourth liner.

In today’s practice, the lineup looked like:

However, as TSN’s Kristen Shilton points out, there’s the obvious caveat of JVR being absent. (She followed up in a later tweet that Babcock does not expect him to miss tomorrow’s game…. so we don’t really know what that means for the lineup)

Is the narrative that Marner was struggling overblown? Was sending Mitch to the fourth line  just a coach giving a young player easier minutes for a few nights, or is it something to worry about?

If it were up to you, where would you place Mitch Marner in the lineup? Would you put him back with James van Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak? Would you put him with Auston Matthews and William Nylander like they briefly played the other night? Would you put him in net?

If you had what would you do with Mitch Marner?

Sound off in the comments below.

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