Value of: Marner as a UFA

[Ulysses31]

Feel like this could be a record breaking contract if he makes it to UFA. thinking 14.lx7 minimum (he wont take a lesser AAV than drai IMO).

while i like him as a player his ego is enormous. i don't think its about making the most money with him but having the biggest AAV.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

...if Toronto bags in the 1st Round and Marner is his usual disappearing self, he won't get Draisaitl money...

 

[Ulysses31]

Just seems like a LOT of money available this off-season and limited amount of talent.

Not just about playoff success but making the playoffs. a team like islanders probably, bruins, DRWs, or BJs. im sure others too could just sign marner and that would all but guarantee playoff births for foreseeable future.

 

[FinlandPanther]

If this guy has ANOTHER soft perimeter loser playoffs then you just know he’ll never win anything important. Just another empty calorie player that is a chronic loser. These playoffs mean everything for him.

 

[LTIR]

Oilers/McD will try to lure him at a discount.

We like our ex Leafs.

 

[Legion34]

Oilers/McD will try to lure him at a discount.

We like our ex Leafs.

The rumour was they were in on rantanen so i guess it’s possible.

But I don’t see how with signing Bouchard.

If he gets 8 then you have like 6 million for 2 forwards.

Would have to strip what 10 million from the current roster?

 

[Canovin]

Marner to the Oilers on a deferred deal

 

[LTIR]

The rumour was they were in on rantanen so i guess it’s possible.

But I don’t see how with signing Bouchard.

If he gets 8 then you have like 6 million for 2 forwards.

Would have to strip what 10 million from the current roster?

Yeh, Oilers will have to lock up McD before they go whale hunting in free agency. ( or even before they extend Bouchard)

 

[LTIR]

Marner to the Oilers on a deferred deal

Or maybe he signs a cheap 1 yr , going for the cup deal in EDM. He can go for longer deal afterwards at a sunny destination with big tax free paycheques.

Hyman-McD-Marner

 

[AvatarAang]

Feel like this could be a record breaking contract if he makes it to UFA.

And then he signs for less than that this summer

And then the haters will still say he is overpaid

Strange how leafs players are worth so much until they re-sign with toronto then they are overpaid

 

[DesertPenguin]

Dubas will give him 14x7 for PIT. I'd also offer him a 3 year deal at the same AAV if he wants, so he can ride shotgun with Sid and then cash in again and go to a team of his choosing when tbe Pens real rebuild begins.

 

[Bouboumaster]

I'd take him on the Habs, but I wouldn't go above 10M, let alone giving him a richer contract

Slafkovsky - Suzuki - Caufield
Laine - Marner - Demidov

 

[Fatass]

I'd take him on the Habs, but I wouldn't go above 10M, let alone giving him a richer contract

Slafkovsky - Suzuki - Caufield
Laine - Marner - Demidov

Marner is great and will help any club but he’s not a centre.

 

[centipede2233]

I think he goes to a Columbus or Chicago for 13x7 maybe Utah. No contending team has the cap for him.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Or maybe he signs a cheap 1 yr , going for the cup deal in EDM. He can go for longer deal afterwards at a sunny destination with big tax free paycheques.

Hyman-McD-Marner

Stopped reading at cheap 1 year. It’s Marner. Not happening

 

[JKG33]

If this guy has ANOTHER soft perimeter loser playoffs then you just know he’ll never win anything important. Just another empty calorie player that is a chronic loser. These playoffs mean everything for him.

I agree with most of what you've said, but I don't think a 9th playoff failure does anything to tank his value. Hell, even if for the first time in his career he produces in the playoffs at a rate appropriate for his cap hit, I don't think that'd increase his value much either.

He is what he is at this point. A 90something point player that disappears when the going gets tough. But unfortunately, teams have been paying 8 figure cap hits to those kinds of players for nearly a decade now. Marner's already had one of those contracts himself, Matthews has had 2, Nylander, Tavares, Pettersson, Panarin...

Even if the Leafs finally smarten up and kick his bitch ass to the curb (which I doubt) there'll be 15+ other teams lining up for the privilege of paying him $14m aav. Because ultimately, most teams care more about getting those extra 2-4 games of home playoff revenue than they do about actually winning the cup. And Marner at least helps get you into the top 16 before he disappears

 

[604]

As a Canucks fan, I’d like the. To offer him $13m max term.

Team needs offense.

 

[Miller Time]

If he's smart, he'll go somewhere like Anaheim,SJ, Seattle or Utah.

Each can pay him big $$
Each are non hockey markets where he won't face same pressure he's been ill equipped to handle in Toronto

 

[wunderpanda]

every team except toronto & carolina will be interested. marner wants to get paid, so its which bubble teams with cap space are closest to playoffs. also, which of those teams have a center to feed him the puck. if he is thinking this is his retirement contract, then bedard, celebrini or fantilli are the guys he wants to play with.

 

[5 14 6 1]

Chicago will offer him a blank cheque

 

[TT1]

I'd take him on the Habs, but I wouldn't go above 10M, let alone giving him a richer contract

Slafkovsky - Suzuki - Caufield
Laine - Marner - Demidov

 

[tsujimoto74]

I’d give him stupid money to play for Buffalo. The team is starving for a playmaker.

 

[FSL KINGS]

11-12 mill on a playoff team instead of 14+ on a lottery team.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

As a hab fan, if the Habs sign him for 13.5/14 I'd be ok with it...

Would pretty much double anyone signed by Hughes, but I'd be fine with it.

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

85 points Suzuki at 7.9 million? Yes please!
95 points Marner at 14 million? Hell No!!

Marner needs to go to a non hockey market. He's not just vanilla soft physically, he's also soft mentally. Kid is not made to play in hockey mecas!

If he thinks TO fans and media are tough he will implode in Montreal.