Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Toronto Maple Leafs pending UFA Mitch Marner is gaining leverage 1 / 4 of the best way via the season. Do the Maple Leafs don’t have any alternative however to increase him or is there a lower off level?
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Sam McKee: “I’ve at all times been laborious on this man. Prefer it began with me, I by no means favored London Knights, the entire deal from the beginning. Not a fan. However you’re going to be a worse hockey crew if he doesn’t signal long-term.”
Justin Bourne: “Sure.”
McKee: “There isn’t a query. And positive, he’s had these moments within the playoffs the place it’s not gone nice. I do know, I’ve talked about them.
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However the actuality is there and like, positive, you possibly can go in free company and attempt to signal these guys. Ask the Bruins how that labored out? Ask how their cap, cap house found out once you signal (Elias) Lindholm and (Nikita) Zadorov, and it’s like, oh, you’re beneath 500.”
Bourne: “What I hope doesn’t get misplaced from our dialog on Monday was the best way that I began that dialog, which was the Leafs have messed this up. And that’s a degree that I preserve to this present day, as he’s a participant it is advisable to hold. There aren’t that many of those guys.
And the truth that it’s at this level, and now they’re watching the cap go up, and so they’re watching him have success, and, you understand, have the leverage at this level to say, he’s going to stroll away, kills them.
And so they should signal him. You’re simply not going to get higher when he’s gone. And they also’ve messed it up up to now, however they might need to eat it slightly bit and say, gonna value a bit greater than we must always.”
Nick Kypreos: “No, No We’re not doing this once more.”
Bourne: “Do you wish to speak about it?”
McKee: “Mitch Marner has the Leafs over a barrel.”
Kypreos: “Are you, are you…”
McKee: “Mitch Marner has the Leafs over a barrel.”
Kypreos: “Are you okay with now with not being slightly bit extra, however it being much more and nonetheless signing them?”
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Bourne: “You recognize, it’s a kind of issues the place it’s like, I additionally imagine that you may’t have guys within the room who aren’t placing the crew first or are tough or repeatedly the individual. Like this man has consistently been a problem for the leafs and for the fan base.
So there’s positively a restrict for me. The place I’m not identical to, now he’s performed good in November, you understand, we’ve seen that earlier than, …”
Kypreos: “How about you?”
Bourne: “… open the checkbook?”
McKee: “I believe I’m sort of, like, are you going to lose Mitch Marner over $500k per 12 months? Like, are you, are you interested by that $500k or additional million bucks are you interested by that when he …”
Kypreos: “Say the $500k, takes him, takes him previous Matthews. You okay with
that?”
McKee: “Hear, at this level, It’s not…”
Kypreos: “Are you okay with that?”
Bourne: “No, completely not.”
McKee: “Most likely not. No. But when it’s bought, both that or dropping them, then I’d in all probability do it.”
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