Breaking: Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving Prefers Extending Mitch Marner Over Trading Him This Summer! Here Why….
Marner is eligible to sign an extension with the Maple Leafs on July 1, but there are conflicting reports about his future with Toronto.
Treliving was asked about the Marner situation by The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun in early June and said that although they will look at every avenue, the goal is to make the Maple Leafs a better hockey team.
“We’re not going to do play-by-play on it. We’ve got to look at every possible way for our team to be better,” Treliving said.
“Mitch controls a lot of this whole thing. If there’s a way to make our team better, we’re going to do it. But we’re certainly not going to make a trade just so we can pound our chest and say, ‘Look, we’re different.'”
Marner signed a six-year contract with Toronto under former GM Kyle Dubas — which carries an annual average value of $10.903 million — on Sep. 13, 2019, while the team was in St. John’s, Newfoundland, for treating camp.
The forward had a down year production-wise, scoring 85 points (26 goals, 59 assists) in 69 games. He suffered a high-ankle sprain on Mar. 4 against the Boston Bruins, which forced him to miss nearly a month.
Marner appeared in seven regular season games after returning to the lineup, scoring one goal and eight assists in nine games before only registering one goal and two assists in seven games during the first round of the playoffs against Boston.
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