TSN: Frank Corrado when requested what the Toronto Maple Leafs plan be for Mitch Marner.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Everybody has an opinion on this. What ought to the Leafs do with Mitch Marner? What ought to be the appropriate plan?
You’ve got to try what the Leafs have carried out right here after July 1, on July 1, how totally different this group really seems to be. So let’s have a look at the info. They’ve revamped their blue line. They spent cash to usher in (Chris) Tanev, (Oliver) Ekman-Larson, (Jani) Hakanpaa. Timothy Liljegren is again within the combine.
So should you had been going to make a transfer for Mitch Marner and also you thought there was a defenseman coming again, likelihood is that may not be the case as a result of they spent cash to revamp the blue line.
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Now, upfront, the group seems to be comparatively the identical. No Tyler Bertuzzi, however you could possibly make the case that Bobby McMann goes to slip into that function. The place I believe issues type of go down the trail right here for Mitch Marner and the Leafs, is that the Leafs type of owe it to Craig Berube to see what he can do with Mitch Marner. To see what he can do with this core 4. To see if a brand new coach, a brand new model come playoff time, can he discover methods to get slightly extra offense out of this group?
You realize, you could possibly say that it’s important to make the commerce and it’s important to transfer on as a result of issues haven’t labored within the playoffs. However final 12 months was the brand new basic supervisor, he tried to do what he might to work across the edges of this group. Now there’s a brand new head coach, you owe it to that head coach to see what he can do with that group whilst you work across the edges once more.
And with the best way the Leafs look now, with the revamped blue line, it could be a greater group, a stronger group than final 12 months. The one factor is everybody else within the Atlantic is simply pretty much as good as they had been final 12 months, so it may not transfer the needle as a lot.
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However Mitch Marner with all the pieces that has modified for the Leafs, the revamped blue line and the truth that nothing has occurred to this point, and the no-movement clause, is likely to be higher suited to deliver him again and see what Craig Berube can do with that group of the core 4 and Mitch Marner.”
