Maybe the Sharks should scour the prison's , alley's , gin joints and halfway houses If you feel it's the key to winning . You have to be sick of all that losing . I hear Jimmy Devellano needs a gig .
Great weather and communities to raise a young family. A great group of young guys to build with. They also have a huge amount of cap space.
Marner is a big name so it makes sense wanting him because we all want playoffs but it would absolutely gut our depth, contract structure and we’d lose a ton of players because we wouldn’t be able to sign them. I also think he’s more of a 80-85 pt player on the Sabres. Good, but not so good to gut the whole team. Plus he’s almost 30 and there’s a shelf life on when he’d even still be effective in his prime. By the time the young guys would be old enough to enter their prime Marner will be passed his prime and we’d lose them because the cap. It’s something a gm on ea sports thinks would work. In reality, it’s a nightmare. Marner alone might not even get them to the playoffs anyway
almost 50% of Marner's salary is taken up by the Skinner buyout. There is 100% room with the additional 6m coming off the books in the next few years and cap rising. Even this year, we can afford to resign our guys with Marner. Idk if it is realistic to say he is worse on the Sabres. He would help their power play and we score a lot 5v5.
Only the Leafs can go to 8 years now. It’s why Marner has basically no trade value.
You’re right, it makes no sense. Welcome to Kyle Dubas school of GMing.
Just like adding a Norris Dman in Karlsson. How’s that working?
I don’t see the Kings being a player in the Marner Sweepstakes. At approximately $14M average for term, along with still paying Doughty’s $11.5M and having to re-sign Kempe and Gavrikov, while in the midst of his contract, Byfield will need to be re-signed(that’s not going to be inexpensive).
Could they use him, absolutely.
