Terrible take cause guess what, they don't have to move him. They don't have to settle for any return for a 90+ point winger whos overpaid by 1-2 million. Whos to say a team with cap space to afford the cap hit wouldn't offer fair value? Whatever the case, Marners staying a Leaf and you stay making awful ACGMs

When Kane signed his 10.5M deal, did you still want him on your team? Ofcourse you did, people want to just act like him being overpaid by 1-2M is the biggest deal when hes 22 with essentially 2 90+ point seasons, sounds like an awful player I guess

meh you're the only person I see saying this. They'd definitely take offers and consider a move if it's right. Would take an overpay as he is finally starting to turn into somewhat of the player he was supposed to be.

Overall it's just to unrealistic to be worth considering... team looks good on paper but it would never happen

More of a reflection of the Canucks cap situation than Just Marner. It’s possible they could sign Taffoli with Boesser still on the team. No chance if they have Marner.

Thanks for letting me know your thoughts.

I’m not saying that the Leafs should trade him, I just think it’s the most likely scenario with their cap situation & with all the underlying circumstances such as his contract & no cap increase, they’re not going to get a return as good as they like.

If you think Marner has more value at 10.9 than Boeser has at 5.8, you're mistaken. With a flat cap for years to come, money is important. Its not an argument that Marner is not a better player, but in the context of money and cap, the value of a good player on a good contract is better than a great player on a somewhat loaded contract

It also depends on the teams current cap position. A team like Toronto that’s very close to the ceiling May value bosser over marner because of the contract, but a team with lots of cap room like Ottawa for example would rather have the better player and could afford it

also true. but I think if were talking Canucks they prefer the value contract too. Obviously if you could plop one of them onto Ottawa you'd pick Marner, he's just too dynamic and skilled. But in terms of need and being pretty crunched for cap, VAN would probably not do this

Probably unless Vancouver could somehow get rid of their albatross contracts

exactly...u mentioned Ottawa

Yeah I just used them as a random example, I agree in Vancouver’s position they’d probably rather have Boeser because they have a lot of bad contracts and couldn’t really afford marner

He retained so it was 9 mil Marner, in which case, Marner's better enough that he's worth more despite being more expensive. Even 11 mil Marner is worth a little more than 6 mil Boeser, but they are somewhat close (with no retention on Marner).

I agree with that. Both teams want the players they have.

thats definitely a fair point. at the end of the day IMO, if I'm Benning, I decline this deal and If I'm Dubas, I take it

Na, If I’m Dubas I pass. There’s no point in trading Marner for a forward.

Well, agree to disagree, I think theres plenty of scenarios where that could be plausible