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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 17, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.
Thread: Finishing Touches
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>RahefIssaLeafsHockey</b></div><div>Can we just stop thinking Mitch Marner should get similar money to Auston Matthews? This is getting beyond ridiculous. Ever since entering the league, no player has scored more even strength goals than Matthews, Marner is absolutely not in the same category in terms of individual ability. In fact, even William Nylander is a better individual player than Mitch Marner. So far in their careers, Nylander’s Corsi for is 54% whereas Marner’s is only 40%. In fact, each star forward on the Leafs found more success playing with Nylander than with Marner. Kadri has a .86 G/60 playing with Nylander and .85 playing with Marner. Van Riemsdyk has a 1.33 G/60 playing with Nylander and 1.18 with Marner. Tavares has a 6.27 G/60 playing with Nylander and 1.53 with Marner. Matthews has a 1.53 G/60 with Nylander and a 1.04 with Marner. This suggests that Marner doesn’t have a lot of individual talent plus his all round game is lacking. He has been riding on success playing with elite centres such as Nazem Kadri and John Tavares. On his own he is average at best. Everyone has been talking about how he should be getting paid 9-10 million a season, but he’s actually nowhere close to that level. In reality, Mitch Marner’s closest comparable is Conor Sheary, another average winger who has benefited from playing with elite centres. Anything offer sheet over 6.5 million dollars the Leafs should not bother matching. Just look at his advanced stats and possession metrics! Awful. <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/nVdJHWP" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/gallery/nVdJHWP</a>
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By no means do I value Mitch and Auston equally but the reality is we are almost sure that the Leafs offered Mitch 10Mx8 earlier in negotiations this summer and based on that offer I think it's safe to assume fair or not, that Mitch will get 6.5M+ AAV on any multi-year deal. Therefore, as much as everyone wants to get riled up about this negotiation, it feels pointless to me and I'm gonna sit these Marner arguments out because I'm frankly tired of contract talk after the Willy holdout.

With that out of the way, what are your thoughts on Bracco and his value in a trade? or do you maybe think he finds his way onto the Leafs roster?