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I see a six year 9.5-10 million per deal that will be signed before opening day and probably by opening of camp. After opening day the pressure will be on Marner not the leafs. He does not really having the option of holding out once the season starts due to the cap rules of mid season signing bumping up this years cap hit and reducing the future years cap hits. The leafs had the cap space last year to do it with Nylander but they don't his year.
Nylander's deal was 6 years at 7.5 million but because he signed at the deadline that became 10 million last year and 7 million for the next 5 as far as cap hit goes. Now if Marner was to try the same thing and demand 10 million for six years and sign at the last minute in December then the cap hit will be something like 14.25 million this year and and 9.3 million for the next five.
So as the regular season ticks buy his salary will have drop as each game is played in order for the team to not have cap issues. The pressure will be on Marner to sign sooner than later once the season begins.