Marners Trade Value

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 2, 2019

Published: May 2, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

If Marner wants 11m or 12m, gotta explore what the Kane-level talent might fetch and what good that space could be put to.
My guess: Marner nets a really good rental defenseman, a top prospect, some first rounders.
And what good are those assets? RHD is valuable on the roster, other assets sweeten trades to offload dead weight (helps that the Cap hit is 6 time more than the actual cost of the contract...)
And the space? Half taken up by the RHD, sure. But moving stuff out becomes easier, and, all together, could get a scoring winger (Skinner?) and top-4 option (re-sign Gardiner? Myers?)

So, that's
1. A quality top-4 Dman
2. A quality top-6 winger
3. Another defenseman (tho, I'll admit, this is pulled off mostly by doing the Zaitsev deal)
4. Some futures that'll keep the team contending for a bunch of years.

Or $11.5m for Mitch. Think I'll take the former.

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