I do
Tkachuk had a year remaining, it came with an extension which got Calgary the value that it did.
People have 20/20 hindsight all of a sudden but Tkachul returned a 115 pt winger and a top pair RD
I expect Marner will do better than most would think
Before anyone brings up Tkachuk/Marner playoffs...Marner's PT/game in the playoffs is better than Tkachuk's was in Calgary.
The day Calgary traded Matthew Tkachuk, his only baggage was he may have done Calgary wrong a little. You found plenty of teams willing to pay a monster price for him.
Nobody in the league is confusing Marner with a franchise piece to build around. That’s just the plain truth of it.
Marner is a GM killer waiting to happen. You can’t play in the shadows making that kind of money. The expectations won’t allow it, and there’s nobody to hide behind going forward.
Guarantee there’s 20+ Managers who won’t even touch him right now. We’re either gonna see a very NOT market value trade, or they’re gonna find a sucker who thinks his job is very secure right now as a newer GM, that he’d make a trade he’ll end up regretting….
Like Ottawa doing something stupid and sending Brady and Chychrun for Marner and Liljegren. It’ll be the end of Staois before he even realizes it.
More likely though, it’ll be Trotz, Nill, Lou, Yzerman or someone else who never worries about their job. Possibly Colorado with the Nichushkin thing, and Sakic’s push to make it happen.
There’s just not gonna be managers willing to take him, knowing the money and baggage they have to deal with.