Player Discussion Mitch Marner, Continued

[Racer88]

Ironically I think this is probably Leafs managements frustration. The cap system has definitely f***ed them. Before you come at me for defending them, I’m just playing devils advocate for the sake of discussion.

Now that I’ve established that lol, I think the leafs would argue that they are punished in this system for simply having good players and wanting to retain them. If the cap was more flexible it wouldn’t be such an issue and a stagnant cap put a strangle hold on their plans.

From a fans perspective my thought is, At the end of the day it’s on the leafs to pivot and adjust if their plan wasn’t working.

Other teams seem to have navigated the strangle hold cap.
It’s almost too late for the Leafs to pivot and adjust. If they lock Marner up we will just have to wait until they age out and hope the next tank and rebuild is done properly

 

[arso40]

1- Did the salary change anything in the fact than Nylander is not the same player playoff vs regular season? That's just telling marner was a better player when it was time for contract extension and Nylander got a late evolution, that's it

ps expectation going with what player doing in regular season, nobody will expect more from Stone because he won 1 M over draisaitl

2-You're the guys always changing the subject... Are you really serious? Move from Marner playing better in a north/south system to regular vs playoff ( an area where almost every leafs player becoming worst)... So just said it was the case with everyone you changing woth by carreer % production and proclamaing it was not the case withNylanderl and just showing it was not the case since he became a ppg player so you're changing it again to value vs result... But go ahead, i'm the guy whos constantly changing the subject...

Nylander basically is the same player at the very least marner is not

 

[francis246]

Other teams seem to have navigated the strangle hold cap.
It’s almost too late for the Leafs to pivot and adjust. If they lock Marner up we will just have to wait until they age out and hope the next tank and rebuild is done properly

Personally I believe the core will get it done, so I’m not opposed to signing Marner. I think this core is more than capable. So I don’t few signing Marner as a death sentence. But I know some people do given the past years history which is more than fair.