Player Discussion Mitch Marner - On Hiatus

[BayStBullies]

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I don't see how he fits in there. Sitting players out the whole year and miraculous healing them for the playoffs is the opposite of where Marner is effective.

 

[rumman]

Jay’s spot on, can’t have Marner back, pretty much the Leafs need to trade him to save themselves from making another huge signing mistake…….

 

[Confucius]

Moving the goal posts if I've ever seen it you will always find an angle huh? The tighter the series the worst mitchy plays I'm a mitchy fan but the facts are the facts imagine if he wasn't playing with matthews you think he'd be plus 10/11 imagine willy was you think he'd be plus 1? That's the difference marners not a defensive wizard he's a solid 200 ft player he doesn't move the needle himself willy produces no matter who he plays with that's the difference marner needs someone to score to grab

Well… explain this, Mathews is a plus 2 while Marner is a plus 10

 

[JKG33]

I don't see how he fits in there. Sitting players out the whole year and miraculous healing them for the playoffs is the opposite of where Marner is effective.

Yea I don't get it either. Vegas targets guys who've either already won or look like they'd be great playoff performers, usually on below market contracts. Marner is none of the above

 

[Nineteen67]

Well… explain this, Mathews is a plus 2 while Marner is a plus 10

Matthews plays a lot and he’s not a very good playoff player

 

[myleafs]

Marner must go. Any other conclusions are WRONG.

Yes, it's that simple.

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I like how the trainer behind Marner just looks at the gloves then back to the game...yea Im not picking those up....lol

 

[Apex Predator]

Give credit to kB for posting that religiously after every Leafs win.

But yeah that man is on alot of biker crank cause that's not normal.

Where has @kb been? Taking a break from the Leafs?

 

[Trapper]

I don't see how he fits in there. Sitting players out the whole year and miraculous healing them for the playoffs is the opposite of where Marner is effective.

Maybe we should try that. Sign him to 1 year deals every year (for the season), trade him at the deadline for a good package, enter playoffs.
Rinse, repeat.

 

[Gabriel426]

Vegas would be an interesting partner.
Theadore and Karlsson are good pieces.
Then sign Marchedsault and Stephenson to complete the culture change

 

[TimeZone]

Compared to the Leafs, Boston is a great team, however they are flawed and relied heavily on their goalies and I didn’t think they were a Cup contender.
They have to look in the rear view mirror because someone will pass the Leafs in the very near future and they probably won’t have it so easy.

They literally beat Toronto by one goal.

They're both absolute pretenders, the Bruins caught a cold Panthers team in game 1(much like Edmonton did) and then the Panthers proceeded to crush Bruins in 4/5 games.

Neither team is anywhere near contending for a championship, they're likely the two worst teams in the Eastern playoff picture outside of NYI and Washington

 

[socko]

Boston is a bit of a wildcard because they have high end goaltending that can steal a series. But the skaters are below average.

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Disinformation is ramping up.

The message needs to be clear: Marner is being traded.

Marner is driving the third line and PP2 if he’s delusional enough to return.


We need to dump an expensive RW and Tre picked Nylander

DF to MM: Hey Paul, if you wanna get some positive press, I might be able to, um, exert some influence for about, say, $20 grand per influencer.

How much you wanna spend?

 

[Gabriel426]

Boston is a bit of a wildcard because they have high end goaltending that can steal a series. But the skaters are below average.

We are supposed to have high end offence that can steal a series too. Guess our top guys are still learning their lessons

 

[57 Years No Cup]

It is amusing that some believe HF's have the majority of Leafs fans posting here.

Ain't so.

We definitely have opinionated Leafs' fans here, but hardly a majority, and I'd speculate not even a good sample size to know what the majority of Leafs' fans really want/like.

If you went to a boxing match and asked the fans like boxing and then claimed your survey was representative of the entire populate 19 times out of 20 blah blah blah.

We are the fringe ... and there's nothing wrong with that ... really ...

...

Against Boston, It went 7 games to overtime and the Leafs had the best 3 forwards playing at less than 100%, with 2 of them missing key games. And the Leafs lost their better goaltender.

As for Boston you can't say they were missing players who are not on their roster anymore than Leafs can say they were missing Hyman, or Kadri, or Sundin. So they weren't missing Bergeron, or Krejci, or Chara or ...

If you asked if I'd like to run this team back healthy against that Bruins squad, yeah certainly. But of course there is no guarantee they'd be healthy, but high ankle sprain, visual migraine, Matthew's revenge, and last stop injury to lose the shut-out while his teammates were celebrating Woll ... so much Leafs.

At least one excuse (reason?) has been replaced, even if the cast remains the same, the director gets to remake it as he sees fit.

Cool story Bro. What about the next 3 rounds?

 

[Cassell]

We are supposed to have high end offence that can steal a series too. Guess our top guys are still learning their lessons

 

[Gabriel426]

Going to take save this

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Yea I don't get it either. Vegas targets guys who've either already won or look like they'd be great playoff performers, usually on below market contracts. Marner is none of the above

DF "bought lunch" for EF to pump up his market value.

 

[rumman]

DF "bought lunch" for EF to pump up his market value.

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least, mist of ghe sports media whore themselves out to whoever pays imo………

 

[57 Years No Cup]

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least, mist of ghe sports media whore themselves out to whoever pays imo………

In no way, shape, or form is Marner a fit in Vegas. Period.

EF was talking out of his ass.

 

[Gabriel426]

In no way, shape, or form is Marner a fit in Vegas. Period.

EF was talking out of his ass.

Or they just need the real interested teams to think Vegas is in play in order to get an even better deal.
A Dman and a Goalie, hmmm, if only there is another team who can offer that.
Parayko, Binnington, 1st and 2nd?

 

[Antropovsky]

5vs5

Matthews career playoff hits: 154
Marner career playoff hits: 49

Matthews career playoff blocked shots: 59
Marner career playoff blocked shots: 14

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Marner could end up with his AAV as low as 7 if he’s not careful.

DF’s tanking of Taylor Hall will look minor compared to this.

 

[QJo]

I could see Dallas being interested. They're getting older with some young talent. Don't have a deal in mind but Seguin, Pavelski and Benn could hurt their high end talent pool over the next couple seasons.

 

[Confucius]

Matthews plays a lot and he’s not a very good playoff player

He’s really a magician, elevates Marner to plus 10 and can’t get himself past plus 2.

 

[ToneDog]

Marner could end up with his AAV as low as 7 if he’s not careful.

DF’s tanking of Taylor Hall will look minor compared to this.

He'll go to the Swiss league before he takes $7m.