Fogelhund
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- Sep 15, 2007
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Oh well.. we get to arm chair QB this, until the situation is resolved one way or the other.Well, for a post that started with a bunch of things "we don't know", you certainly responded with a bunch of things "we don't know".
(a) We don't know that the Leafs haven't reached out already. It's reasonable to assume they have put feelers out.
(b) We don't know that Marner would ever consider an offer at less than current.
(c) We also don't know if he would be offended by such an offer.
We DO KNOW that his history is one of not taking a discount and seemingly comparing himself contract wise as above Nylander and below Matthews.
So, if your suggestion is that we sign him early with a year where we can trade him (at a discounted price) I agree that this would be optimal. I have zero reason to believe it would ever happen.
In my scenario, we have him playing for a contract all year, which is a good thing and the worst case scenario (contract wise) is that we have playoff success because of him and we re-sign him and it costs us $500K or $1M more per year than it would have to sign him before the season, or maybe they get closer to the cup and he doesn't demand more...maybe he just wants to come back and finish the job they get close to.