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 needs to be the precise plan?
You have got to check out what the Leafs have achieved right here after July 1, on July 1, how totally different this group truly seems to be. So let’s take a look at the information. 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 for those who have been going to make a transfer for Mitch Marner and also you thought there was a defenseman coming again, likelihood is which 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 may make the case that Bobby McMann goes to slip into that position. The place I believe issues form of go down the trail right here for Mitch Marner and the Leafs, is that the Leafs form 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 fashion come playoff time, can he discover methods to get a bit extra offense out of this group?
, you may say that you need to make the commerce and you need to transfer on as a result of issues haven’t labored within the playoffs. However final yr was the brand new common 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 way in which the Leafs look now, with the revamped blue line, it could be a greater group, a stronger group than final yr. The one factor is everybody else within the Atlantic is simply nearly as good as they have been final yr, so it won’t transfer the needle as a lot.
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However Mitch Marner with every part that has modified for the Leafs, the revamped blue line and the truth that nothing has occurred to date, and the no-movement clause, could be higher suited to convey him again and see what Craig Berube can do with that group of the core 4 and Mitch Marner.”
