Mitch Marner is about to enter the final year of his six-year deal with the Maple Leafs. Should Toronto trade the asset to get something in return or do they see what new head coach Craig Berube can do with the core-four? TSN Hockey analyst Frankie Corrado looks at Toronto’s options in Wednesday’s Talking Point.
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No Cup winner in the Cap era has had three forwards in the top 10 highest cap hits.
The only team to try it has been the Leafs between the 2019-2020 and 2023-2024 seasons, and the results speak for themselves.
An extension to Mitch will cripple the franchise, even with JT’s albatross contract off the books.
How is this a debate? People get so caught up in focusing on the player itself. The Leafs need CHANGE. It’s insanity to keep running this back. The fact that I need to explain this at all is utterly alarming.
Trade him. TML fans must be going insane. I feel for them.
don't trade through subtraction like the Oilers did with taylor hall …
Don't waste your energy on his situation…he wont agree to a trade and you can't afford to sign him for what he wants so let the season play out and fill that cap space with a free agent that fills a TEAM NEED ! …for money that makes sense with the teams available cap space
I hope they keep him. 😂
The plan should have already been executed. He should have been traded last year when he didn't even have a M-NTC let alone a NMC
Probably the leafs tried to trade Marner, is it possible that nobody wants him the asking price 12.5 x 8 i was the leafs bring him back for the final year and see what happens, let him prove that he deserves that kind of money
Dump him. Dump the salary. Dump him. Dump the salary.
Leaf's still need a #1 defenseman.
Oh yeah cause just changing the coach is enough. 10 frickking years. You do not owe it to anyone. This team is worse than last years team. Maybe much worse.
They’re still not set in goal because Woll is injury prone.
See if he can run a line. Give him the 3rd and make him earn that big check with his NEXT team.
There are a handful of players in the league better than Marner. You likely aren't getting any of them back in a trade. So next year you have all this space if you trade him, and JT comes off the books, though you have to try and replace Marner's production, his PK and PP contributions… Or… you can keep him, you're getting a lot of space next year anyway, you have young players who should be taking a step and cost very little, and the guys we did bring in this year (while a bit older) at least signed with some term so we shouldn't have to worry about filling as many holes next offseason. A new coach may get Marner to play different, but ideally he gets everyone around him to play different. The Leafs forwards have had to improve defensively a lot over the last few years because our blue line was unreliable. We often to had to outscore our problems. Now with a more reliable blue line, the forwards can put the focus back on offense (although the defensive lessons and skillset doesn't just go away). Two or three years ago we'd win games 7-6, 6-3… perhaps now we can win 7-3, 6-2, etc.
Also with perhaps Reilly and OEL (whether you love him or not) being able to stretch their legs a bit more we can finally see some production from our blueline for the first time in 20 years as well.
I'm also cautiously optimistic about our goalies. If Woll can stay healthy, great, I've wanted Stolarz on the team for a while, and the idea of a hopefully healthy Matt Murray for league minimum is a nice fall back option.
Start the season with him and trade him in January.
Alright, so the Leafs will never get past the first round. Got it
If the problem is that the Leafs want to move on from Marner and he has refused a trade and plans to ride out the season, then the solution is to bench him into oblivion. Make his life miserable until he drops the NTC. Works for both sides. Since he is gone anyway at the end of the season, he should be wanting to make a mark on a new team to justify a $12+ mil long term deal. Staying here, a hated player, with limited ice time is not in his best interests. From the leafs side they don't need him to make the playoffs, and certainly don't need him in the playoffs. And yes a trade will not be of equal value but how about one good 2nd line center ($5-6mil) and some draft picks which the leafs badly need.
6 x 11 but only a modified no movement with 16 teams, no raise because you're already making more then you deserve to begin with lol
Marner is not the problem
He’s only part of the problem
You will never win with this group
Mathew’s is more the problem than Mitch
Berube can’t change the nature of the players.
Sounds like your solution is an annual coaching change.
I agree with everything you said. Give the coach a season to work with Marner, if he flakes out let him sign elsewhere.
Babcock called him soft, Keefe called him sensitive. Trade him.
13 mill contract
This team is an absolute joke LOL keep running it back you morons
In the corporate world if you perform poorly in 1 year most likely you’re fired and this squad of spoiled Leafs haven’t performed for many years and the dumb brain trust think a new coach will change things 🤦♂️
Owe it to Berube ? They don't owe him anything, he has Mathews and Nylander and 1 year of Tavares. This team has been one of the worst managed in the cap era. And now it looks like more of the same for the next 4-8years if Marner resigns at his rumoured aav. And why is it a foregone conclusion Tavares is coming back? At this point running it back was not an option. What was Treliving brought in to do again?🤔
They don’t have the cap room to resign him so it’s time to trade him and see what they can get in return