When being drafted by the Calgary Dragons sixth overall in the first round of the season fifty four SHL draft, Calgary management and a lot of the league’s management saw that Mats Marner had the potential to one day become a super star in the SHL. Coming from a hockey family that consists of SHL hall of famer Darian Scherbluk, Marner had the advantage of learning how to become a successful hockey player from a young age. In the SMJHL the last three seasons Mats Marner has been one of the hardest working juniors taking advantage of every single training opportunity provided, has been a positive vocal presence in the media, has the funds to afford all of the top end personal training for years to come and has proven to the league that he is willing to do whatever is best for his team. To back up all of these intangibles off the ice attributes Mats Marner has had all of these positive attribute translate well into his game on the ice and is having a huge breakout year in Newfoundland this season leading the SMJHL in goals with seventeen in twenty four games and also has twenty nine points to put him fourth overall having played one less game then most of the other top goal scorers.

While Marner has proven himself to be quite the capable hockey player and is showing the SHL that he has what it takes to be a superstar on and off the ice hockey wise, I would never ever trust his cooking skills or even stepping foot in the kitchen. It is a good think that his three million dollar entry level contract is a big enough salary to hire his own personal chef because if not he may not be standing here today.

Growing up in Ukraine in an old school traditional house hold, cooking was often left to the women of the household who would take great pride in making home made food from scratch with all of the Ukrainian delicacies like pierogis, cabbage rolls, beet soup, making bread from scratch, etc. As a result Marner’s mother and grandmother did all the cooking in the house growing up and he had never really cooked anything until a couple a seasons ago when Marner made the move over to North America to play hockey in the SMJHL as an eighteen year old.

After getting an apartment in Newfoundland and living on his own during the past three season, Marner has had his fair share of disasters in the kitchen. During his first night living on his own in his new apartment in Newfoundland Marner thought he would start with cooking something simple with making some pasta. However, he somehow caught the stove top element on fire while boiling water and when he came back to kitchen to check if the water was boiled after five to ten minutes he came back to a ball of flames underneath the pot. This scarred Marner big time but luckily he was able to put out the kitchen fire before burning down the entire apartment.

After this incident in his first season Marner refused to use the stove to cook anything and relied on only eat stuff he could make in the microwave. However, he somehow messed that up and was stupid enough to one day heat up food with metal Tupperware on it which caused a huge spark inside of it, destroyed his microwave and led to a mini fire that he was luckily able to put out. Following this incident Marner refused to cook anything at home at stuck to only having take out for the rest of his first season.

He tried his luck cooking again heading into his second season in Newfoundland this time getting adventurous by trying to cook some fish and chips in the oven. However, kitchen luck was not on Marner’s side yet again and he somehow set the aluminum foil at the bottom of the stove on fire which this time caused a big kitchen fire with lots of smoke. This was the final straw and after this Marner decided to hire a personal chef to do his cooking after signing his multi million dollar entry level contract putting the money to good use to make sure he ate healthy and had good tasting food that was not brunt or set on fire like any time he ever tried to cook food using the stove. Overall, Marner could probably compete for the worst cook in the SHL.

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