Because Boston is OVERLOAD with cap space and Marner would definitely sign with rival right??

Because Boston is OVERLOAD with cap space and Marner would definitely sign with rival right??

I get what you're saying with the Preds Powerplay, but I can't see why they would want a defenseman. They're always looking for forwards, their top 4 is nasty. Krug is probably their number 5 dman.

Yeah of all the teams in the league, you'd have to think the Bruins would be near the bottom of Marners list considering he plays for the leafs and has loved the leafs his whole life. Just assuming he hates Boston.

Also you have Marner signed at 8 mil and Chara at 1.... Never happening.

With a few moves the B's have more than enough room, and the leafs could make moves to fit him as well that just doesn't fit my narrative here. And by the end of negotiations, Marner could want to spite the leafs. He could also reject any offer sheet that comes his way and take a team friendly deal with the Leafs. I'm just doing a mock where he doesn't want to stay with the Leafs, and the Bruins manage to give him the best offer sheet.

I would consider Subban and Ellis both offensive defenseman, even Josi is a good two-way guy who usually puts up 50. They have offensive defensman the powerplay just isn't clicking. I'd blame set up more than personnel.

At some point do you think they look at the glaring need of a offensive defenseman to quarterback the powerplay take preference over another forward? If he's their 3rd pairing defensemen, but leads the 1st PP unit, I think that might be more helpful than a middle 6 forward, but you are right when you say Nashville might look at it as unnecessary and keeping looking to upgrade the front.

Are you saying you see Marner getting far more than 8? I agree he's worth more, but I don't know that the Leafs will go 10 or higher with him. And Chara's 1 mil would be incentive based per games played for an extra chunk of cash.

If Marner gets less than 9.5 I'll be extremely happy/shocked. Im guessing 8 years at 9.5-10.5 or 3 years at 8.5-9.5 is where he falls.

I'm not sure the Leaf match. It's not a good number. Don't see why Marner should be the third highest paid player in the league. But I'm sure of a, Backes doesn't waive for Arizona and Arizona doesn't want Backes anymore than the Bruins too. And Nashville keeps Jarnkrok over one year of Krug.

I think that's a good number for him. For this I was going purely off a number that the leafs can't match without any moves.

Well, you’re wrong, very wrong

How so? I know he'll get more, but currently the Leafs only have 17 skaters signed and projected 5.2 mil in cap space. So without any moves or moving of space, they can't take on this cap hit. That's the only thing I'm basing it off of. Not saying the Leafs won't make every attempt to move cap and sign him because they absolutely will.

Because he’ll get more..as you said. There are 29 teams in the league other than the bruins and the leafs. If offer sheets are real, it will take way more than that. Like 3 million more than that

Sorry, I thought you were saying it was a number the Leafs could currently match. And offer sheets are still up to the player right? I'm not too informed on them, but if an awful team (sens) came and gave him a 7 year offer sheet at 14 a year, it would be up to Marner to accept another from a better team for less money right? It's not just the highest bid on a sheet wins?

It’s up to the player, but either way Toronto would 100% match this offer and send the bruins a fruit basket as a thank you...but Marner wouldn’t sign it