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Panarin is great and all but I wouldn't mortgage so much of the future for him when that package could get a legit right handed defensemen. Or the Leafs could just wait until free agency and sign him without giving that up. That package might be worth an extended Panarin but it's not worth 1 year of him.
Best case scenario for Marleau is the Leafs win the Stanley cup this year, he retires and his cap hit is traded to the Coyotes or an equivalent team so they get above the cap floor. If the Leafs don't he's staying in the blue and white for his final year amd Panarin is completely out of the picture.