Tavares is one of the very best centres in the league. Every winger who plays with Tavares long term, has career highs. There's even articles about the Tavares effect and how linemates are negatively effected when they play away from him. Why do you think that is? Marner is no different. No one is suggesting Marner is David Clarkson by any means, but to openly try to discredit Tavares as much as possible, despite Marner gaining 25 points playing with Tavares is absurd. It doesn't matter that Marner out produced Tavares , all it does prove is that Tavares played with less than optimal line mates during his time in New York . Marner is on a similar boat, he's a low scoring winger who got matched up with an elite centre who can score 30+ goals a season. That's a big reason why his numbers jumped up significantly playing with Tavares while the latter didn't see a massive increase, except of course with his goals. However, it was never out of the realm of possibility that Tavares could reach 47 goals because of his previous high was 38.
We already have the proof of how well Marner plays with and without an elite goal scoring centre and we have proof of how well Tavares plays with and without an elite level winger. Marner needs Tavares more because of his lack of goal scoring. That doesn't mean Marner isn't an elite level player because he most certainly is, but this just proves why elite centres are more important than most elite wingers. I'm not sure Marner will score 100 points, he would have to increase his goal scoring and I'm not sure he's capable of becoming a 30+ goal scorer, he just isn't that kind of player. I think you may be setting yourself up for disappointment because not even in his last year in junior was Marner the best goal scorer on the Knights