It hasn’t been a good few days for Toronto Maple Leafs’ star Mitch Marner.

His team lost their playoff bid last Saturday and the next day he had his shiny new expensive SUV stolen in a gunpoint robbery at the Odeon Cinemas parking lot at The Queensway and Islington Ave.

Police tweeted they were called to the area around 7:46 p.m. on Sunday for reports that a man was robbed of his car.

There has been a rash of postings on social media recently of residents reporting their cars stolen, or attempted thefts, in that general vicinity.

Police said they have received 36 reports of a stolen vehicles in Etobicoke between May 5 and May 11. There have been 2,854 vehicles reported stolen in Toronto so far this year, which is a 55 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2021.

Reports say the popular Marner was ‘shaken but not hurt.’

He was taken to 22 Division hours after the incident to give a statement to investigators.

Officers are searching the area for three suspects armed with two handguns and a knife, who escaped with the high-end black Range Rover.

There are reports the bandits smashed Marner’s phone as they fled to avoid being electronically monitored.

Police said the Leafs’ winger did the right thing by surrendering the vehicle, since he could have been shot or stabbed in the darkened lot.

Officers believe the crooks were watching cars entering the lot, in search of desirable vehicles that could be sold abroad.

Police were making the rounds to area shipping container companies in search of last-minute suspicious activity.

Two days earlier, two male suspects attempted to carjack a woman in the same area but were not successful.

Police officers chased the suspects on foot in that incident there were no arrests.

Marner and the Leafs were eliminated from the playoffs on Saturday in a seventh and deciding game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.