Even crazier, in Crosby’s mind, was the fact that he already was on the bench when the puck entered the net. The Canadian captain had made a back pass to a charging Marner in the neutral zone before jumping off the ice for a line change.

The way Jon Cooper views it, Mitch Marner was made for his Canadian hockey heritage moment on Wednesday night at the Bell Centre. While Marner wears the Toronto Maple Leafs logo on his chest, he has likely never scored a bigger goal in his career than his overtime marker in Team Canada’s 4-3 victory over Sweden in the opener of the inaugural 4 Nations Face-off in the home of hockey.