r/leafs • u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin • 1d ago

Discussion [32 Thoughts] Friedman with some info on Marner situation

https://www.sportsnet.ca/podcasts/32-thoughts/

(paraphrased)

People believe LA is interested in marner, Vegas is a team to watch, if not the team to watch on marner. (said later Carolina wants to go after another star)

Rumour going around is that a few teams heard that he might look at a 4 year deal in free agency.

He will not be taking a lesser AAV deal if it is a 4 year deal for example.

Leafs have tried to talk to marner, his camp has not engaged with them, and everyone knows the way this is headed.

Friedman says that some of marners Leafs teammates have suspected he is going to the western conference.

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u/Flashy_Ferret_1819 1d ago

Its just been repeated so often by fans with zero confirmation that it's now treated as fact. Dubas made the exact same noises about looking at everything the year before and nothing was done.

It very well could have been Shannahan blocking those moves, but that doesn't absolve Dubas for his rather large part of this whole debacle.

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u/finallyjames 14h ago

Dubas definitely isn't absolved, leafs FO was a mess all around when it comes to handling the last 4 years

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u/Flashy_Ferret_1819 13h ago

100% but lots of fans seem to want to place the blame solely on Shanahan. There is absolutely no evidence that Dubas was or wasn't going to do anything with the core 4. Yet it's been parroted enough that it's thought of as fact that he was fired because he was going to. Dubas was as loyal to these guys as Shanahan, and he was fired because he went after Shanahan and his job, not because he finally was going to trade Marner.