Mitch Marner Sheds Fishbowl at Maple Leafs Practice After Wearing it for Only Two Games

"I didn't really know at first," said Marner of whether he thought he broke his jaw on the shot. "When it hit me, it kind of just went numb my whole right side of my chin. 

"The first thing I did was feel down for blood or anything like that because I couldn't tell. And then when I looked at Paul (Ayotte), our physio, he just pointed to right to the locker room. I felt blood, I knew I needed stitches. I started trying to clench my teeth and luckily enough I still could."

Marner tried out two different types of helmets during Thursday's morning skate. Later that night, the 26-year-old said that the "fishbowl just felt the best out of all of them."

In Marner's first game wearing the fishbowl, on Thursday night against the Seattle Kraken, he scored the second hat trick of his career and also had one of Toronto's goals in the shootout, which helped them win the game.

Since being held pointless in three straight games from Nov. 24-30, Marner has four points (three goals, one assist) in the last two games, against Seattle and the Boston Bruins.