To be clear, I'm perfectly okay letting Marner and Tavares walk. They've run their course here and I think there's enough evidence to support as a group they don't work when the games matter.So let's pay 16 and 91, $20+m and hope they figure it out after failing a 7th time as a group? If Mitch's game does not translate to the playoffs this year, it never will. He may also decide that the heat is too much and wants no part of this market in which case, you have to move on anyway.
I just think if they do indeed leave that the Leafs are more likely to take a step back than get better and I hope people are prepared for that.