After facing off as rivals in the 4 Nations Face-Off final, per TSN's Mark Masters, Marner and Matthews shared a flight home from Boston. The two Maple Leafs stars exchanged thoughts on the new tournament and looked ahead to Toronto’s playoff push, Marner revealed on Saturday.

Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews flew home together from Boston after the 4 Nations Face-Off final at TD Garden.

“They get paid the big bucks, but at the end of the day, they grind it, too,” Leafs forward Steven Lorentz, who made a terrific play to set up David Kampf’s 3-0 goal, said of Matthews and Marner. “They’re obviously very skilled and they can put the puck in the net, but when the minutes get up there with them, you don’t really see it a whole lot.

Mitch Marner, whose fingerprints were on two goals including Connor McDavid’s winner, won the border war against Auston Matthews, in a Boston barn where Toronto was eliminated three times in a first-round Game 7 series in which he and Matthews had little consolation of being their team’s leading scorer.

NHL analyst Mike Johnson shared his thoughts on Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and William Nylander at the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament.

The Toronto Maple Leafs returned to their NHL scheduling on Saturday night against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes, but the memory of the painful 4 Nations Face-Off tournament loss still lingered for Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews.