It doesn’t matter anymore. He’s gone. He acted like a mercenary during contract talks. His father disparaged the franchise, during said talks. He was treated like a God and was the toast of the town, with Willy and Austin. I don’t forgive him for not waiving his no trade when the Leafs wanted to trade him to Carolina for Mikko Rantanen. He just decide to screw the team over and did so. Marner is no leader. He always had someone shielding him for his on ice play. He always played with the top talent, with the Leafs, or in International play. He also made the comment about his dark days in Toronto. Can I have a serving of this? I’ll take $11M plus to put up with Steve Simmonds, etc. I wish him luck in winning a Stanley Cup. I think the Leafs needed to go in a different direction and the Draft Lottery provides this opportunity. Now, they just need to give the memo to Rielly and a few other freeloaders who’ve gotten too comfortable in Toronto.
Absolutely wrong. Leafs low balled him not realizing how important he was to the success of the Leafs. Leafs franchise deserves to be disparaged because they’re run by a bunch of retards and supported by even more retards. He was the scapegoat, not a God while Tavares wore his pajamas and completely disappeared vs. the Panthers but receives nothing but love because he plays for cheap while the team loses games. 100% his right to not waive to go to Carolina. He wanted to stay in Toronto. The team ran him out of town and turned the fans against him to buy themselves another year of freedom from responsibility for building a shit team around the biggest load of talent they’ve had since 1967.
You aren’t worth 11 million. He is. Yes, he’s a public figure but the majority of the hatred that came from the team, media and the fans was misdirected and Toronto has become a shithole city so why put up with it any longer when the franchise, the media and the fans give you every reason to leave it behind? To keep some retards happy so they can blame you the next time the team fucks up again?
You are in full blown Marner Derangement cope mode using Lib logic. The Leafs went in a “different direction” thinking they could contend for a Cup without him. They ended up one of the worst teams without him. Again, clearly Rielly has sucked for years but who got pushed out of town? Marner. Why? Because the Leafs are way too “nice” to push the actual dog shit players out and keep the good ones.