Toronto and Mitch Marner May Shelve Extension Talks Till the Finish of the 12 months
Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Interval joined Mick Kern and Dennis Bernstein on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio and was requested if Mitch Marner will put on a Maple Leafs sweater come the beginning of the 2025-26 season.
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Dennis Bernstein: “Right here’s my final one for you. Okay, October 1, 2025, let’s say that’s opening night time. Okay, which jersey is Mitchell Marner carrying?”
Dave Pagnotta: “It ought to nonetheless be Toronto.”
Bernstein: “Okay?”
Pagnotta: “As a result of I imply, he will get crapped on, particularly in Toronto, approach an excessive amount of. And who was it, was a MacKinnon? Any individual got here to his protection.”
Bernstein: “It was MacKinnon”
Pagnotta: “Simply reemphasizing simply how good of a participant is while you see it from exterior market. He’s, he’s, he’s phenomenal.”
Mick Kern: “He’s excellent.”
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Pagnotta: “His final three seasons, he’s both hit or been on tempo for 90 plus factors in each a type of seasons. He was on tempo for final yr. I believe he cracks his century mark this season. By the way in which, if he’s wholesome, I believe he hits over 100 factors. He’ll receives a commission. It actually goes to come back all the way down to, I suppose, how a lot the Leafs really feel, they will add and insulate round Matthews and Marner and so forth
Tavares is up after subsequent, after the season as nicely. That cash, if he does keep, he’s going to drop considerably. You will have cash for Marner. It’s only a matter of pushing that to the desk. I believe now, as a result of the Leafs have waited, and so they did have talks, and so they did speak to different golf equipment about probably transferring him and what that will appear like, and this that and the opposite.
And I believe that they had a good suggestion of the place Marner would have accepted a transfer to. However with camp beginning subsequent week, I believe at this level you’ll wait to see what you bought. There aren’t Marners that simply develop on timber. So I believe even my mindset was, has shifted as a result of firstly of the summer time, I assumed that they had been undoubtedly going to be taking place that path. They undoubtedly had these discussions.
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I simply suppose now, I believe it’s a wait-and-see mode, and each side appear to be wonderful with that. The one one factor I’ll say, the one potential caveat I’ll say, is that his agent, with previous shoppers should you don’t get a deal and also you’re speaking, you’re going right into a speaking yr. In the event you don’t get a deal accomplished by the beginning of the common season, he actually pushes to maintain talks off till, Darren Ferris, till the top of the season, that workforce season.
I don’t have an issue with it. I believe that’s probably a proper place, and there’s no distraction. And also you say it as soon as, and that’s it. However they nonetheless acquired a month or so to determine that out in the event that they wish to go down that highway.
However I’m beginning to, I’ve began to lean much more DB in the direction of Mitch sticking round. However they higher pay them. And it’s going to be 13. 12, let’s say minimal $12 (million) a yr.”
