What wrong with "Mitch'in" Marner?

[Lafleurs Guy]

Another series where Marner is a no show.

Matthews was good when he could play. Nylander was great. Knows was great. They have players to go forewarn with.

But Marner and Tavares have to go. Problem is, I don’t know how they can be moved. BMCs and I don’t think they want to go anywhere else. Maybe Tavares agrees but I don’t see it for Marner.

 

[dirtydanglez]

marner won as many board battles as the leafs won games

 

[Fledgemyhedge]

Marner is just god just awful. Nylander is worth his weight in gold however. It doesn’t and won’t get more clear after todays game. Marner has got to go.

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

He didn't impress me tonight ... I don't watch him enough to understand his game. He seems like he is observing too much and not committed enough to making plays when they are available.

 

[Icelevel]

Just cannot come back with him next year. Need to move marker and Tavares for some jam.

 

[algernon]

Marner is just god just awful. Nylander is worth his weight in gold however. It doesn’t and won’t get more clear after todays game. Marner has got to go.

Marner for Huberdeau makes sense from a Leafs perspective considering his and Brad's relationship. Maybe add Halak and a second to even things out a little.

 

[Jeune Poulet]

Marner for Huberdeau makes sense from a Leafs perspective considering his and Brad's relationship.

A relationship? Being bent over hard by a UFA during negotiations because you have absolutely no leverage doesn't qualify as a relationship.

More like a one-night stand where you hope to never cross that person again.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

3pts in the series for Marner is unacceptable.

 

[Chaos2k7]

And people were saying it was absurd to take Slafkovsky over Marner for the playoffs

That is pretty dumb as one didn't qualify. There are plenty of actual talking points to criticize if you wanted...

 

[buffalowing88]

Just cannot come back with him next year. Need to move marker and Tavares for some jam.

The market for Tavares is zero. He hit the wall.

Marner is going to get a lousy team to pay him a lot and put up good numbers for years.

But Toronto has to move on. I hate that I am rooting for the same fanbase that takes over our arena these days but there is something about them that I like.

Marner is just not it. He reminds me of all of the Sabres' forwards we had from 08-11 where we would be competitive with them but they would just become non-factors in the playoffs. Pominville, Vanek, Stafford, etc. He's of that ilk. He just happened to have a lot more opportunities.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

That is pretty dumb as one didn't qualify. There are plenty of actual talking points to criticize if you wanted...

Its a hypothetical scenario, so no its not dumb...

 

[Chaos2k7]

Its a hypothetical scenario, so no its not dumb...

Make the playoffs, and see how he does, easy to talk shit under hypothetical pretenses

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

And people were saying it was absurd to take Slafkovsky over Marner for the playoffs

Well,

Neither one really played in the playoffs so…

 

[Divine]

He's scared of physical contract.

Swayman literally put a goal on his stick and he was too scared to put it in the net.

 

[TheNumber4]

Marner needs to request a trade out of there. The relationship has run its course.

When a city starts cursing not only your name but your dads name you know it’s over. When Marner does interviews and he has to talk about keeping “scrambles” out of his brain from the big meannies in Toronto’s market, you know it’s over. Everytime Marner gets interviewed he has this adversarial relation with the fans. You can’t do your job with that kind of mindset about the fans you play in front of.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Make the playoffs, and see how he does, easy to talk shit under hypothetical pretenses

How can you not understand that Slaf being a bit of a mystery box is part of the equation of the poll?

Take the regular season superstar that underachieves big time during the playoffs or take the 6'3 1st overall pick powerforward that hasn't played in the playoffs yet, but has all the attributes to be a good playoff performer.

The poll is really not hard to understand.

 

[ijuka]

And people were saying it was absurd to take Slafkovsky over Marner for the playoffs

How well has Slafkovsky done in playoffs in NHL?

 

[mandiblesofdoom]

Marner is like that "What is it that you do here?" meme.

 

[goldenblack]

Isn't he still playing hurt?

 

[Plastic Joseph]

Marner for Huberdeau makes sense from a Leafs perspective considering his and Brad's relationship. Maybe add Halak and a second to even things out a little.

Yeah but why would Marner want to go to Calgary? The team sucks and he would just be the scapegoat there too without the marketing benefits of being a Leaf and also being close to his home.

There is no way Marner waives his NMC to go to Calgary

 

[57special]

He's had 50 points in 57 playoff games. 14 in 11 last year. He's good, but a finesse player, who is not going to be putting a beating on Charlie Coyle in the corners. Horses for courses.

Marner, Matthews, ... all of them are just fine. The problem is that idiot Dubas overpaid them early on before they had actually won anything, which put their salary structure out of whack, which in turn limited their cap space and ability to get some more top quality players.

If you look at almost all the recent multiple Cup winners like LAK, CHI, PIT, BOS, they all paid their guys AFTER multiple Cup wins, not before.

There is not really a fix besides letting Tavares's contract run out, and perhaps trading Marner, though one year of him won't be worth much unless leaf's take back a lot of salary. I fully expect them to make a panicky, stupid move this summer that will doom then for years going forward, like Marner for EK.

 

[waitin425]

He's soft. Plain and simple

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

More like Watchin Marner.

 

[Kaizer]

“Marner is an amazing two-way forward and PK machine” … Leafs fans in 2 months in yet another annual “Marner vs Rantanen” poll.

 

[Ezekial]

Marner needs to request a trade out of there. The relationship has run its course.

When a city starts cursing not only your name but your dads name you know it’s over. When Marner does interviews and he has to talk about keeping “scrambles” out of his brain from the big meannies in Toronto’s market, you know it’s over. Everytime Marner gets interviewed he has this adversarial relation with the fans. You can’t do your job with that kind of mindset about the fans you play in front of.

All he needs to do is say is where he'll waive his NMC and he won't need to make a request.