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Toronto Maple Leafs right wing Mitch Marner looks up at the crowd during the second period of a game against the Minnesota Wild, Nov. 3, in St. Paul, Minn. If there’s any doubt about the Leafs getting better with an extended Marner contract, then they should know what they have to do. Not just pass on Marner, but replace him with someone better suited to their needs.When Steven Stamkos chose to leave the Tampa Bay Lightning over the summer, he seemed to feel they had done him dirty.
All the high-end talent they were still holding on to – Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov, Andrei Vasilevskiy – was functionally being wasted on a no-hoper. It could once be said that a team owed its players something. The Red Wings owed Gordie Howe. In his heyday, they paid him about the same amount of money as a GP to make Michigan the hockey capital of the world. Some consideration was due when he began to flag.
Reinhart does not fit the stereotype of a cap-pressurizing free agent – he’s a winger; he’d disappointed in Buffalo; he’d never scored more than 33 goals in a season before the last one, when he scored 57. This season, Pettersson looks like a man who plays hockey as a condition of his bail. He’ll have one good game, get his chit signed and then disappear for four nights. If the Canucks are heading into Leafs’ territory – a hypothetically great team that doesn’t translate into reality – the Pettersson extension will be the signing that defines that.
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