Steve Dangle, Adam Wylde and Jesse Blake discuss Mitch Marner and his agent Darren Ferris doing interviews this past week to speak about Marner’s departure from the Maple Leafs. Then, Dangle discusses some things behind the scenes that fans may not know about in regards to Marner and his camp.
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Steve gets tweeted he can’t interview marner again, and he worries for his wife’s safety???? 🤡
i said many times this team will be much better in every way with Marner gone. It’s accountability
nhl players and their agents complaining about fan pressure and it being taken seriously by many hockey fans make the league look so bush league
Steve pretending that private message from a security guard who works for Marner is the same as a nut job fan publicly posting Marner's address with a threat is a joke.
Does that message suck? Sure, its ridiculous… though I understand it slightly through the lens of them thinking Steve's podcast was the one encouraging fans to dump garbage on Mitch's yard. Either way, trying to equate the two like this is only going to make toxic fans feel validated in their insane actions. Congrats Steve, you're part of the problem. Awesome job.
Incredibly disappointed with your take on this. Trying to both sides this situation or talk about how it happens in all fandoms is pathetic. The entire message should be this sucks and is unacceptable, stop it. I'm a Leafs fan by the way.
Good for Mitch and I hate the Knights…wish he would’ve stayed east
He feels the hate towards him endangers his family but he never once tried to be more liked by fans. Part of his big paycheck includes dealing with the media and he stubbornly refused to say the right things. When I talk to people about Marner it's not his playing that makes him hated it's his attitude.
He feels the hate towards him endangers his family but he never once tried to be more liked by fans. Part of his big paycheck includes dealing with the media and he stubbornly refused to say the right things. When I talk to people about Marner it's not his playing that makes him hated it's his attitude.
Vegas is 3 years from being a disaster. They will be in Cap hell
LEAF FANS ARE THE WORST FANS IN HOCKEY
He should have been traded 2 years ago
Mitch was soft on and off the ice.
Playing the victim strategy/ bad look
I can't get my head around this. I'm a 66 year old Leafs Fan from Nova Scotia. Toronto is fucked up
25:35 people dont want that because of any one incident.
The more I listen to leaf players talk about Marner leaving, the more I’m convinced they are glad he’s gone.
Pretty sure he's pointing out how the market could get better in a town he was proud to play for. He's probably bitter, yeah okay, but to ignore a SUPERSTAR who is telling you why he left is strange. Its really proving his point, you guys hate a kid who played his heart out for the city. I typically love this network, but you guys sound like a gilted ex
Marner also likes to slant the car jacking as he was car jacked because of who he is not – he was driving one of the most targeted cars in the GTA for theft and he was just a random hit
yeah no fan of any sport should go to those measures. That's as barbaric and stupid as it gets. We all get it….though he did lead the team at a PPG in the playoffs, he was also a minus player and had some horrific gaffes at horrible times. I think no matter the points, the leadership just wasn't purely there with any consistency, so for Leaf fans I think that was the most frustrating. The mental shut down was very prevalent. All the way back to the first contract negotiation his dad was all over it saying that his son deserves McDavid money. I mean, great to support your son, but also quite evident that the team (in the eyes of the media and fans) appeared to have come second. I think Marner played his heart out for this team for sure, but at the end of the day these failures were always about the young guys taking too much and not putting themselves in the position to be a true winning team in that way. I think Nylander and Matthews did show more maturity in their game than Marner and were far less fickle to the media and fans than Marner, unfortunately. It sucks. I wish the leadership was better on this team. I wish that these guys could've pulled it off. I wish Marner all the best in Vegas. Just tough that these things happened to him, but I also feel like the frustration went both ways for sure for good reason. So in that I agree with Dangle here. Nobody should have to deal with that. Though parts of this team was a little entitled and perhaps some still are. Time to hammer it down. Be a mature team. I still think they'll struggle this coming year. Hoping for big moves in next year's FA. Such a mess. Hoping for the best.
Can’t be mad at someone for propagating a narrative when all you do is spin.
I have been a huge fan of Marner's talent – under appreciated play on both sides of the puck. That said, I think he is just another entitled Millennial who didn't know how to take accountability for his failures and this created a huge gap between him and a significant portion if the fanbase. A boy-man who couldn't control his "team" or accept critique. The threats were just noise and an excuse because at the end of the day they wouldn't have happened if he knew how to step up like a man and talk the the fans and showed he really cared about something other than himself.
Good thing he's gone. What a POS
Mitch is such a sick little crybaby POS. You see Willy take the TTC don't BS about safety. When the chips are down Marner would rather do anything then take responsibility for his own failures. Blame teammates, blame fans.
Mitch DONT READ THAT
that kid is an absolute manchild. Thats how hes been raised its so obvious. Dont let the rest of the league gaslight you, that guy is so embarassing. I dont think I've ever hated a players attitude as much as I do with Marner.
Good riddance, you guys got rid of the problem for sure !
There is no "real truth".. the fact is that Leafs fans are unhinged jackasses, full stop. Enjoy your era of irrelevance.
Mitch is 10-ply and can't take valid criticism. He's become hostile to the fans who have responded in kind.
Toxic media using scripts providing talking points from a toxic team management to target certain players to weaken their negotiations or use their smooth brained toxic fan base to run them out of town.
There’s a reason why no stars in their prime EVER want to come to this vortex of fail of an organization.
Good luck in the playoffs, Mitch! You’re in a far better place now.
Mr. Agent: stop glorifying the term 'misinformation' as a catch all. We've already seen that hasn't aged well if you do any modicum of research.
I'm surprised that some players can't just bail quietly. Why can't they just join their new team in free agency, then when ppl ask about their previous team, they just say: 'I'm gonna let the past be the past, and I'm looking forward to trying to win a Cup with my new team…'
Done! No need to sh!t on their old team…
Mitch Mariners agent is a goof
Listen if you leaf fans treated him better he would have stayed instead you fools dont have him
Steve and company stop CRYING
Most hated player in 30 years of watching this team. Good riddance entitled whiney baby
Incredible strength, wow. Mitch Marner, victim, martyr, hero.
Guys always been too much in his own head …he's sees it as he's the all star cause hes been pampered that way …always the victim always playing defense in his real life because of his lack of winning when it matters play on the ice…go ahead use this mitch if it makes you feel better about yourself use it …I'm just glad they got rid of this princess from the locker room …its not about you bro take that mentality to Vegas see how far it gets you over there
Both Marner and Ferris are full of it. There was no reason for any of this after the fact. Opinions of this player were set long ago, and it just shows how out of touch with the real underlying issues Marner and his group have always been. Mitch claiming that this came down to some inexcusable actions by fans after this year's loss to the Cats is beyond desperate, especially when news came out that he had already decided to leave over a year ago, that he and his family were shopping for homes in Vegas at a short break in the season, plus several hints from players and insiders throughout the year.
Mitch's father was attacked because he was known throughout Ontario to be the epitome of an overbearing hockey dad, and that continued when he became the father of a prominent Maple Leaf. He routinely made critical comments about other players in support of his son until someone finally convinced him to button it.
Mitch's Mom allegedly had already earned a reputation for being condescending to the mothers of other Leaf players, and it supposedly came to a boil on an early Mom's trip.
Ferris' methods of campaigning for his client hurt the bargaining power of other Leafs and the roster construction of the team. On and on, but these two clowns always blamed the team and the fans. The majority of fans have wanted to move on longer than Mitch, despite his prodigious talent.
I’ll never forget what Babcock did to him—dick move and a dick to play for or so I hear.
Yeah any attempt to spin this as a decision made this spring is pure bunk and everyone here knows it.
That all said, the book on marner and his family all the way back to junior is that marner didn’t handle criticism well, his father in particular couldn’t accept any possible insinuation that Mitch wasn’t the absolute best and that’s played out in the Toronto fishbowl precisely how many would expect.
This organization gave marner essentially everything he could ever ask for and he found a way to feel disrespected at every turn.
The thing that cracks me up the most is for a decade leaf haters been chirping non stop how Marner is soft garbage, now all of a sudden the Leafs are screwed without him and we are idiots for letting him leave. Make up your minds dum dums
The cope from Leafs fans is hilarious. What a loser fan base
Surprised Mitch’s nose didn’t keep growing throughout that interview. Thousands of players have played for the Leafs and only this guy has problems. He’s a son, a brother, a new son…blah blah blah….like other players don’t/didn’t have that?! What a joke! He’s always been a “woe is me” kind of guy. So tiring. No wonder Leafs have choked in the playoffs with leadership like that!
Hockey fans remember, if you don't like watching a player/team just watch another one, or just don't watch. Don't make death threats or show up to their house like an animal. "Why you heff to be mad, is only game!" – Risky Bryzness
As a life long Leafs fan ( since the sixties) these’re interviews have really bothered me. How Marner and Ferris are trying to rationalize their leaving Toronto and blaming the fans. I have so much anger at these two two-faced individuals that has been pent up so thank you Steve Adam and Jesse for voicing how I and probably the majority of Leafs fans feel. We are the ones paying his salary and making him matter and there is absolute betrayal and they throw it back at us. It’s our fault he failed here. Just pathetic!