Quoting: MondayLettuce
Why do you hate marner so much, arent you a leafs fan? Nashville isnt losing much, they have a good amount of prospects. You dont find guys like mitch very often. You can say he sucks in the playoffs, but last year he was great against tampa. He is going to go to a different team and absolutely light it up for them. I feel like GMs know this and would be willing to pay the price. The nashville trade isnt even that steep of a price as they are only losing a third liner, and two prospects who MIGHT be something?
Quoting: MondayLettuce
Why do you hate marner so much, arent you a leafs fan? Nashville isnt losing much, they have a good amount of prospects. You dont find guys like mitch very often. You can say he sucks in the playoffs, but last year he was great against tampa. He is going to go to a different team and absolutely light it up for them. I feel like GMs know this and would be willing to pay the price. The nashville trade isnt even that steep of a price as they are only losing a third liner, and two prospects who MIGHT be something?
I don't hate Marner at all. Now, I don't think he worthy of an 11m contract...but that's OK. I have never said he sucks in the playoffs. But he should not be the 9th highest paid player in the league. Why would he light it on a different team? He's surrounded by Matthews, Nylander, Tavares and a top 3 PP. He'll never be better statisically then he is now with the Leafs
But you just don't understand trade value. First why would Marner waive to Nashville in his contract year? He's better to stay a Leaf and pump up numbers.
Why did you trade one year of Marner? So you could use the departed cap to sign two UFAs to term. So wouldn't Nashville be infinitely better to keep those young assets, sign two UFAs (like you did) instead of one year of Marner.
It's kinda funny that to many Leafs "homers" want to trade Marner to spend his cap better on other players and get picks. But no consideration of the other team (in this case Nashville) for the construction of their roster. 99% of these homer Leaf trades never show "the other team" and the additional 10m (in this case that Nashville ) and how it's fits into their salary cap.
I think the reason so many Leaf fans want to trade Marner now is they think they entitled to a return before he leaves as a UFA. Take a look at the roster you just posted, You signed four UFAs from other teams and didn't give anything to obtain them.
And please no silly extension talk. They happen so infrequently, especially on year out from being a UFA. 94 points, 48 goal scorer Forsberg gets paid 8.5m. Do you think Nashville is paying Marner much more than that in an extension?