Dreger: ‘Marner Is Going to Go to Free Agency, Leafs Are Going to Try to Reinvest that Money’ - Video

No-Move Clauses, Trade Speculation and You

A few days ago, I was thinking to myself that Leafs fans needed several interventions last summer to stop assuming trading Mitch Marner was a breeze – one raised by the waiving of his full NMC – and now they needed a new one to stop assuming the Leafs have any control over his leaving as a UFA.And then it occurred to me that this is really the same issue. The heavy resistance to taking a player's NMC seriously is all bound up in the, well, sorry…

Dreger: ‘Marner is going to go to free agency, Leafs are going to try to reinvest that money’ - Video

Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLennan are joined by TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger to discuss how realistic is it that the Maple Leafs run it back with the core, is John Tavares’ deal basically done, Craig Berube’s role in the new look front office in Toronto and is a sign-and-trade for Mitch Marner and the Leafs a possibility.

Bold sign-and-trade plan on the table for Mitch Marner!

All eyes are on Toronto as we get closer to free agency with the Mitch Marner situation heating up. Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving is in a tough spot seeing that if the pending free agency leaves in July, the team is letting a franchise cornerstone walk for nothing. According to Hockey Patrol, the only way to avoid the disastrous scenario is to force a sign-and-trade deal in order for the Maple Leafs to salvage some value from what c…