TSN: Frankie Corrado on if there may very well be something that Mitch Marner does to earn a mid-season contract extension from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“No, there shouldn’t be a Mitch Marner extension in the course of the common season. And that’s not precisely simply an indictment on Mitch Marner. It’s extra of the fact of the timing of how these contracts have come up and the way the dearth of playoff success has continued to comply with this group.
Matthews bought prolonged, sure. William Nylander bought prolonged in the course of the season, sure. However now we’ve reached the purpose the place it’s been 9 years of this. The group hasn’t actually been capable of recover from the hump and also you haven’t made the large commerce.
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Now you have got a kind of contracts expiring in Mitch Marner, You’re giving head coach Craig Berube a chance to educate this core group. This group and these core gamers have confirmed each common season that they’re phenomenal gamers. The factors might be there.
So what extra are they going to indicate you in the course of the common season that’s going to warrant a contract extension? This must be in regards to the playoffs. If the leafs need to get an extension executed with Mitch Marner, they need to let this play out into the playoffs. See how issues go from their issues don’t work till they lastly do work.
If the playoffs roll round, and Marner and the core group have a unbelievable playoffs, then you definitely’re speaking extension. And you realize what, you’ll be able to nonetheless throw the large quantity at Mitch Marner and entice him to remain in Toronto. It’s not going to be too late. You don’t have to fret about dropping that participant.
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However there’s nothing extra within the common season that this group and Mitch Marner included, can show that might warrant giving him an extension with out seeing that playoff success.”
