TSN: Frankie Corrado on if there could possibly be something that Mitch Marner does to earn a mid-season contract extension from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“No, there shouldn’t be a Mitch Marner extension in the course of the common season. And that’s not precisely simply an indictment on Mitch Marner. It’s extra of the fact of the timing of how these contracts have come up and the way the shortage of playoff success has continued to observe this crew.
Matthews acquired prolonged, sure. William Nylander acquired prolonged through the season, sure. However now we’ve reached the purpose the place it’s been 9 years of this. The crew hasn’t actually been in a position to recover from the hump and also you haven’t made the large commerce.
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Now you might have a kind of contracts expiring in Mitch Marner, You’re giving head coach Craig Berube a possibility to educate this core group. This crew and these core gamers have confirmed each common season that they’re phenomenal gamers. The factors can be there.
So what extra are they going to point out you through the common season that’s going to warrant a contract extension? This must be in regards to the playoffs. If the leafs wish to get an extension carried out with Mitch Marner, they must let this play out into the playoffs. See how issues go from their issues don’t work till they lastly do work.
If the playoffs roll round, and Marner and the core group have a implausible playoffs, then you definately’re speaking extension. And what, you may nonetheless throw the large quantity at Mitch Marner and entice him to remain in Toronto. It’s not going to be too late. You don’t have to fret about shedding that participant.
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However there’s nothing extra within the common season that this group and Mitch Marner included, can show that may warrant giving him an extension with out seeing that playoff success.”
