What do you think of Mitch Marner’s deal and fit with the Golden Knights? Are you ok with a shorter-term contract for Evan Bouchard? Does it shock you the Panthers signed all three big free agents? Should Leafs fans worry the big change is Marner leaving? Is there a limit to the number of players Vegas can sign? TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins SC with Jay Onrait to discuss.
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Leafs won't even make the playoffs next year.
Button is such an insufferable goof
I hate this trade with a passion!
He was offered the biggest deal in maple leafs history. So dumb!
Button is so stooooooopid how is still with tsn
Toronto fans are transactional with their team. They love you only if you’re good and will eat you alive if you falter.
It isn't abouts taxes. Players want to go to trams with. Good culture, winning attitude, fans that love their team, and media markets that aren't toxic. Totonto only half checks one of those boxes, the fans.
CRAIG IS A JABRONI
"I wouldn't know why the Leafs wouldn't sign Mitch Marner" lol smh 🤦
Anoter Trelivingggggggggg bad move,
Craig is financially ignorant if he thinks taxes are not involved in players deciding where to go.
(He also needs socks).
As for Marner:: if you wanna say that he wasn't the reason they lost in the playoffs, then you also need to acknowledge that even with him they didn't go anywhere. Will his 90+ points be missed? Yes. Is that all there is to winning especially in the playoffs? Heck, No!
WOAH I can't believe Vegas ended up getting Marner afterall… Can you imagine Marner with Eichel….or Barbashev….or Hertl…or Dorofyev? AND in with a hockey system that emphasizes high energy and movement in both ends of the rink! This will be fun and quite frankly I hope Marner goes on to have a career year and makes it to the Final 4!!!
Conversely, I hope MLSE realizes that NOTHING is going to change until they get serious about:
1. Nylander & Matthews have been 'controlling the culture' of this team for the past 9yrs!
2. Our goalie situation is too shaky with solid goaltenders who are just one rough hit away from being sidelined.
Mitch hasn’t been the same since that car jacking incident.
Personally i thought he was better than Auston leafs loss,he can spread his wings now
Of coarse there all vaccinated. Fit right in . 😆
Button is the biggest knob in hockey.
If a player wants every dollar they can make in salary, then they don’t want to win a cup in salary cap era. Also if you pay 60% in taxes in Canada vs 40% in USA , you will take less salary and sign in USA.
It certainly does not make Leafs stronger without a worldclass D or goalie back.
“The Toronto maple leafs are in no risk of missing the playoffs” – this has the potential be another all-time horrible Button take, like when he predicted a Toronto sweep against Montreal in 2021
good riddance
Trends evolve over time. Considering how many top free agents are signing in Vegas, Dallas, Nashville, and Florida nowadays, you absolutely can't convince me it's not an advantage
Marner should have been a Leaf forever. Not surprised he moved on given the a/o Treleving asked him to waive his no trade clause for Ratenan. Once again the Leafs are rocks for brains.
Leafs made a horrible mistake by insuting Marner over and over again. As if HE was the reason they lose. I got news for you Leaf fans. The Leafs lost before Mitch was even born, year in and year out. Well now you got what you wanted. Enjoy missing the playoffs. Enjoy those streches in the mid-season when Matthews is on the DL and now you got no Marner to make those passing plays and kill penalties. LOL…
Even Canadian players would rather not play in Toronto now. Matthew's is next. Tkachuk will be gone in Ottawa in the next two years as well. Canada can't compete with places like Florida, or Vegas or Texas. State taxes are low, the weather and even the way they handled covid. People partying and having fun on the beaches and in the bars while Canadians were locked in their homes and being arrested by the government. No wonder most stars don't want to play here
Leafs are better today …..adding two players from Vegas and Utah. Freeing up all that cap space . Leaf fans shoukd be pleased going forward.
Bruce Cassidy is gonna chew marners ass up
Marchand + Ekblad = 11 mill.
Marner 12million.
Good luck Vegas.
Mitch Marner is a great player but he is no Mikko Rantanen and he shouldn’t be as expensive because he doesn’t do it in the playoffs.
Button is a moron. Arrogant with bad takes and won't change his mind no matter the evidence.
Best for both parties to move on.
Roy, a 4th line center in LV….wow, just dreadful. We need to get younger, bigger, faster, skilled, tougher….players like Knies….come on man….Roy, lolllllllllllllll. 3 million for a 4th line center, lolll…..Just a salary dump.
Bouchard at 10.5….that is terrible
A good fit for Vegas except both Marner and Jack are soft.
LEAFS FAN HERE, I LOVE MITCH MARNER, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY NONE OF THE CORE FOUR CAN PERFORM IN THE PLAYOFFS. I AM NOT SURE WHY MARNER GOT THE BLAME FOR IT ALL. SOMETIMES I FEEL THERE IS SOME CURSE ON THIS TEAM….WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR DECADES. I WILL MISS MARNER A LOT, HOWEVER, THE COMMUNICATION BROKE DOWN AND IT JUST HAD TO BREAK UP. SO SAD.
Should have kept Marner trade Mathews.
No passengers!
not come the playoffs
LOL ekblad is better than Bouchard , I’ll take a defence d man with some offensive skills then the pylon Bouchard all day
These guys are having Marner kissass withdrawal. Let it go homies.
Craig Button flip flops like a fish
these guys are clueless.
LEAFS got screwed!
"I don't know why the team didn't want to sign Mitch Marner." WOW. Obviously, the Maple Leafs delusion doesn't end with the fanbase.
Marner has the wrong people filling his head with crap about how he’s been disrespected and deserves to be treated like the man… now he is… have fun in vegas
He’s brings a negative affect and sucks in the play offs .. no one mentions that ! Good riddance
5 shots in 4 games LOL