Toronto and Mitch Marner Might Shelve Extension Talks Till the Finish of the Yr
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 evening. Okay, which jersey is Mitchell Marner sporting?”
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? Someone got here to his protection.”
Bernstein: “It was MacKinnon”
Pagnotta: “Simply reemphasizing simply how good of a participant is whenever 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 12 months. I feel he cracks his century mark this season. By the best way, if he’s wholesome, I feel 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’ll 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 may have cash for Marner. It’s only a matter of pushing that to the desk. I feel 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 shifting him and what that may seem like, and this that and the opposite.
And I feel that they had a good suggestion of the place Marner would have accepted a transfer to. However with camp beginning subsequent week, I feel at this level you’ll wait to see what you bought. There aren’t Marners that simply develop on bushes. So I feel even my mindset was, has shifted as a result of in the beginning of the summer time, I believed that they have been undoubtedly going to be taking place that path. They undoubtedly had these discussions.
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I simply suppose now, I feel it’s a wait-and-see mode, and each side appear to be superb with that. The one one factor I’ll say, the one potential caveat I’ll say, is that his agent, with previous shoppers in the event you don’t get a deal and also you’re speaking, you’re going right into a speaking 12 months. For those who don’t get a deal executed by the beginning of the common season, he actually pushes to maintain talks off till, Darren Ferris, till the tip of the season, that workforce season.
I don’t have an issue with it. I feel that’s possible a proper place, and there’s no distraction. And also you say it as soon as, and that’s it. However they nonetheless bought a month or so to determine that out in the event that they need 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 12 months.”
