Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on Toronto Maple Leafs pending UFA Mitch Marner and pending RFA Matthew Knies. Is it attainable that Marner is again subsequent season? The Leafs should know what Knies is on the lookout for on his subsequent contract.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Friedman: “Now Marner. Simply making a pair calls about it, I feel that if the group had their approach, they’d maintain him.
There’s two issues I feel which are the difficulty. Primary, it’s a must to comply with a quantity, they usually haven’t been anyplace shut on a quantity. In order that’s primary. And quantity two, I do suppose that he must decompress, and does he need to keep? Like, is there any a part of him that claims it’s simply time to go someplace else?
Like, there’s some actually silly stuff that occurs, like, there was some actually dumb stuff that occurred on social media. And I may see, I feel what everyone is questioning about right here is, is there any a part of him that claims, I simply need to go someplace the place it’s quieter.”
Tim Micallef: “Proper.”
Friedman: “And I feel that’s you possibly can’t make that call if you’re emotional, however he does have to make that call.”
Micallef: “Would, if Marner made that call on his personal…”
Friedman: “Yeah.”
Micallef: “… would that make it simpler for the Leafs to maintain Matty Knies? As a result of there’s lots of people speaking about provide sheet proper now.”
Friedman: “I feel so. I talked on the pod, and I feel it was about how they may have traded Knies for Rantanen to Carolina in the event that they actually needed to. I feel they’ve recognized for a while what sort of, like I don’t suppose you make these selections with out having an concept of what Knies camp is wanting proper. I feel they’ve a fairly good concept of what it’s going to value to maintain him.”
Micallef: “Proper.”
Friedman: “And I, like they, in the event you’re not buying and selling that man for Mikko Rantanen, you’re caring for (inaudible).”
Micallef: “You suppose they will maintain Marner and Knies?”
Friedman: “Yeah, I do. Yeah. I feel they may, yeah.”
Ken Ried: “Knies for Rantanen. Okay.”
Friedman: “I imply, look, the factor is, like, I all the time have a look at it Tim as, you determine what it’s a must to do …”
Micallef: “Yeah, after which determine it out.”
Friedman: “… after which determine. You may go 10% over the cap in the summertime, and you determine what you want to do.”
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