I get it. Seeing very unrealistic Marner trades all day that don't make sense gets annoying. I'm tired of it too. But, it's CF. That's kind of the point.

As annoying as the Marner trades are getting, it really is hilarious to see the herd opinion on capfriendly be "well he's expiring in a year so realistically he's worth nothing", when I think we can retain if needed and get a pretty hefty return for an 80-90pt player, no?

Carolina sent a decent package for Guentzel with the notion they may not even keep him. Lindholm got a pretty good package and he's probably a rental as well.

"B-b-but Marner sucks in the playoffs!" (Albeit he was playing through injury this year) So does Lindholm. His playoff stats are much worse lol. He still got a good trade.

In a hypothetical where Toronto looks to move on from him in this offseason AND Marner accepts to move, we can retain and the team getting him would still get an 80-90pt forward at around 5-7m (depending on retention). If done in the offseason, the team would have him for the whole season + playoffs.

And you don't think we could get a decent return? Be for real.
Again, I get it's annoying to keep seeing Marner to teams where it doesn't make sense. But isn't that the entire point of this website? To spark discussion? Some of you reeaaallyy need to hop off your high horses.

But, that's capfriendly. Not wanting to give up good assets for other good assets. Gotta love it.

"We drafted this guy 28th overall 3 years ago and he's still in the AHL, you can't have him for your top line forward!!"