I imagine he'll have suitors, but if they move him, their fans are not going to like the return. At all.
Remember when Tavares was leaving New York and all the Islanders fans had deluded themselves into thinking he would stay right up until he signed with Toronto? I think that's what we're headed for here. The Leafs would rather lose Marner as a free agent for nothing than deal with the fallout from trading him.
to be fair to Isles fans on that one, Tavares was adamant about not being traded at the deadline that year when he was approaching UFA, about wanting to work out a long-term deal there. He stabbed them in the back like a Roman Senator.
It was pretty bad with no change in his lack of effort. It isn’t the town that is the issue but the player. and he has a chance to be bought out at 1/3. LA doesn’t have a long shelf life and they made it shorter with PLD
That does not add up to a buyout. He had 40 pts, not 4. I don’t think much of him either but I don’t think there’s any way in hell he’d get bought out. They invested a lot in trade and money in him and it takes guys time to settle with a team, even ones with history like PLD’s.
If it was a system thing, no one would suggest buying him out. Its not. Its the same PLD effort level issue. They either have to buy him out in a small window for 1/3 or potentially have to live with his effort levels dragging the team down for 7 more years
was going to say, I've never been impressed with him, though tonight is especially bad.
