I would love to have Marchand. He is a great fit as he plays all the same roles marner does (5v5 difficult minutes, PP, PK) and for all the money wasted on "intangibles" over the years, his personality and work ethic is exactly what this team needs.
But I won't be upset if we don't end up...
I like OEL too, but they have to find a way to get a couple good forwards. Ideally centers.
Trading any of our non Mcacbe/Tanev D makes a lot of sense because we are deep in 4/5 dmen and there are no good dmen in UFA outside of Ekblad.
With all the teams “looking to get better” IMO the move is trading guys like McMann, OEL, Carlo for young players the nerds identify as undervalued/miscast.
That’s obviously not what they will do.
Tanev
Top Speed: 88th percentile
Bursts > 20: 89th percentile
Blocks/60: 1st (by 1 block)
ixG/60: 0.73 (6th on Leafs)
He'd be useful but scared of that contract.
Kessel, Kadri, Bozak, Steen, Murphy... the list of players we ran out of town that went on to prove the Leafs wrong is long and embarrassing. But Marner won't be added to it. He's the one quitting on the Leafs.
Can we replace his regular season production? No
Can we replace his playoff production? Yes.
I’m not paying you from 35-39 for what you did in the regular season in your early 30s. Eat shit.