Imagine being in your early 20's and turning down over 100 million dollars CAD to play for your home town and childhood team.

Steve - Mitch is an adult. We gotta start holding him accountable for his actions. Maybe he is bowing to pressure from daddy but hell, it’s still his career and his contract.

I predict Steve's hair will be fully grey by the end of the season.

I'm done with him honestly, 7-8yrs @11m and he says no, talk about being greedy. For him it's clearly all about money and term, he wants to be walked into UFA so his next contract is huge, so selfish, where is the desire to be a Leaf? where is the desire to play and help the team? Kid could've been a legend in TO, but if he keeps this up he's going to get booed out of this city.

Steve needs a backbone sometimes, needs to be way harsher on Marner's camp but instead gives a really neutral opinion. Leafs offered a huge over payment at 11/7 and he still declined THAT, absolutely insane

Yes, I’m here early to watch the yelly guy yell about things

Crazy take: What if the leafs threw an offer sheet at a different player that more represents the value they want to pay mitch Marner

Marner and Matthews and Tavares competing over salary, goals and points destroying team. End the madness and name MORGAN RIELLY CAPTAIN. Checks all the boxes, Canadian kid, Leaf draft pick, longest tenure on team, all-star, leader of the D-Core and earns far less than the others so they will not be jealous of him getting the captaincy. Do it now and end this sibling rivalry among the forwards.

Growing up playing hockey in Toronto, I find it reprehensible that someone would turn down playing for the home town leafs because making over 100 mil Canadian isn’t enough. Send this guy to Switzerland, we’re good enough to win without him.

You had me until you said his dad was doing what's best for him. His dad has a small man complex. Things his dad has said or implied strongly 1. Mitch was better than Connor in his draft year. 2. Mitch should have never played anywhere but first line. 3. Called Hyman garbage. 4. Their family thinks it's crazy that Mitch is not considered captain. 5. Mitch was overlooked in the ohl. 6. Mitch was screwed out of his bonuses but Auston got them 7. Mitch is as good as Auston. He also tried to start his own marner memorabilia site in Mitch's first year with the life This guy isnt a normal hockey dad. He is a nutcase and he is going to ruin his sons career. He is a bully and orders his son what to do. Honestly I don't think Mitch is like this but he feels pressure from this asshole. Paul marner if you are reading this....stop trying to live through your kid. You are going to ruin him just like Carl Lindros ruined Eric. HOF career but zero cups and injured most of it..

If Mitch resigns for an unreasonable amount that screws my team, I’m still going to resent him as soon as he hits the ice in a Leaf Jersey. Nothing will change.

Two things will change this ridiculous RFA business. 1) One of them will sign a 3 year bridge betting on themselves (e.g. Laine) and blown a knee and be out of the league and all the other future RFAs will remember that they are taking a huge risk by refusing longer term. 2) The cap growth rate will slowdown and teams will realize they can't be so undisciplined with their negotiations.

Dangle...I love you man. But you are being too kind to mitch here. Mitch is a man. He is not some boy. This is his money and his contract and he ultimately decides what he gets. He was the one who had final say. He is being greedy. Marner obsessed fans dont want to admit but he is. He is being envious of the clearly better player in matthews. Everyone including dubas is being way too nice and accommodating to him at this point. Its time to put your foot down.

With all due respect Mr Marner, for those dollars and your home town team? All I can say is would that be a window or isle seat to Europe?

When Steve Dangle takes a beat and tells everyone to cool it, you know that things are not alright.

Keep excusing Marner for everything. You guys act this kid is a 10 year old that doesn’t know what’s going on. At least have more respect for him than that.

116 MIL Canadian, Steve. Trade him. This is cancer for the team. 11 mil is an over payment. And that was shot down. You can't pay him the amount he freaking turned down. We have ONE defense man signed next summer. The cap dictates we can't afford this kids expectations.

You know, the more I go over the timeline of the Mitch Marner contract saga, the more i believe that Darren Ferris should claim a great amount of responsibility for Marner's growing reputation as a player who folds under pressure. He might've earned a healthy commission and got his client a massive deal, but it is becoming apparent that the expectations baked into this massive extension are playing an enormous psychological toll on Marner. If he struggles for a stretch in the regular season next year with fans in the stands, things could get quite ugly. Sometimes, what's best for you and your client isn't always wringing every penny from a team's pockets. That being said, if Marner was emphatically pushing for maximum money and it wasn't just Ferris running the show....well, he dug his own grave for his reputation. A golden grave, but a grave nonetheless.

You are being naive. It's all 3. Agent, dad and Marner. 11×8 is $116 million Canadian dollars. For a winger. Not even the best In the league. I would rather trade Marner and Ceci, for a RHD and playmaking winger. Pesce is making, just over, a ridiculous 4 million dollars a year, until 2023-24. That would leave the leafs with 11 million to go after, a playmaking winger. If Marner gets all that money, the leafs are screwed. Unless Mikheyev turns out to be another Panarin and Dadonov, which he just might do, (similar numbers on a worse team then Panarin and Dadonov who both played for the powerhouse, KHL St. Petersburg) hopefully Mikheyev can be at least a close second to Panarin or a close 3rd to Dadonov. Marner turning that contract down in June is absurd, his obsession with Matthew's, top goal scorer, since entering the league per minutes played and other unreal stats, makes Marner look money hungry. Dont care what he does anymore. Hopefully hes traded and leafs cap will look much better and defense much better.

BTW $11m USD would be $14.5m CAD dollars if anyone was curious. Doing the math this dude could buy 31 brand spanking new 2019 Rolls Royce Wraiths EVERY season. Wish I could turn down that kind of money while playing hockey smh. Meanwhile some people struggle to make rent.. I mean think about something you would love to buy and imagine how many you could buy with $14.5m

Point will be signed soon @ close to 8.5m, Rantanen will follow at slightly lower after. The only team willing to overpay Marner by more than 3m is the leafs.

So just ask Mitch: "ARE YOU IN ??"

Marner gonna pull an Antonio Brown and sign with Tampa.

Great video Steve. Thanks.

Fantastic video Steve - Really appreciate you using a wide variety of sources to illustrate the point. Hope you land a radio gig at the Fan or 1050.

Marner is clearly getting horrible advice from Daddy & Agent

Pretty soon Marner gonna be in the Larry Murphy file folder.

i can't wait to watch this video about teddy blueger

The O Dog said it best. Put the offer of 7x11mill on the table beside a plane ticket to Switzerland and let him choose which one he wants. Can’t let this kid, his dad and his agent bully the leafs

They offered him more than Ovi, Crosby, and Kucherov. He turned them down. Mitch can’t hold their jocks!!

The sun came out. Marner signed.

It’s so much fun listening to Steve talk about his team. One day I’ll watch the Leafs play at home and I’m buying a Dangle jersey

Agree 100%. Buuuuuuutttt I wouldn’t mind yelly Steve’s take on this too lol.

The context of tense and personal negotiations reallllllllyyyyy comes into light after the Babcock firing...

Honestly time to trade Marner. Dubas grow some and sign him and do a trade. Mitchy you damaged your Rep in T.O. Nobody will have your back anymore

That awkward moment where Steve makes a video and then Marner signs the next day :P

This is nylander all over again. But i know nylanders 7mil per year contract is looking mighty good now

No joke, as I watched this: Marner extension with Toronto is 6 years, just shy of $11 mil aav.

Imagine turning down 11 million a year. How much money do you need lol?

Ain't Marner making those demands. It's daddy and Jerry Maguire. BUT it's still bullshit. Get rid of him, stack the blue line and get a good back up for Freddie. I'm available for GM position btw.

I was honestly expecting a long yelling ranty video. However this may be one of the better videos I've seen on the Marner deal to date. Good job Steve. Good job trying to prevent your emotions from influencing how you see the situation and being an adult to evaluate what it looks like in the big picture. Keep that shit up, bud.

This aged well

He's a big boy stop hiding behind the agent and daddy.... Either you wanna be a leaf or not... Turn down 100+mill Canadian your a joke! you lost me Mitch

If he doesn't sign that long-term deal by October 1st, he'll be known as the Greediest player in the league

This whole thing has never felt like Mitch was in the driver's seat. Why he isn't, I have no idea. But there's no way he is being this unbelievably petty and unrealistic. That's not the person he has been over the course of his career. I think how jarringly opposite to his personality this has been is why fans are so upset. I genuinely hope that he is signed and this ends without irreparably damaging his relationship with the team, the city, and the fans, because he seems like a genuinely good guy, and is a tremendous hockey player. Signed, A Bruins' fan

this video willed the contract into existance

No matter what happens, I’ll never buy a box of Marner-O’s.

On the bright side, it's 2024 and Marner's contract is still a giant pain in the ass for everyone involved.

Oh my I’ve been waiting for this vid.

Agent works for mitch ... the father is speaking on behalf of mitch ... end of the day it's MITCH that has to own all of this.

Dangle jinx

Also, I don't know about the idea that all is forgiven when he steps back on the ice. The cap implications of this deal will be big and long lasting. And I mean, if we're being honest, as far as the court of public opinion goes, William Nylander is still paying for his holdout last year.

I was in the media room at the Bell pratice facility in Borossard yesterday and it's probable a no no to share anything I herd or saw that is not hockey related but here I go: Pierre Lebrun's ring tone is "Little Bones" and this made me strangely happy....

I said this a long time ago and nobody believed me. Now you are seeing how right I am. Building a Cup contending team today is different than the past. There is no dynasty. Teams are penalized for drafting and developing well. No team is able to load up on star players because you just won't have enough money to go around when everyone will fight tooth and nail for max money, even if it means blowing up the dream and plan of building a Cup team. Nobody cares about the Cup compared to money. Money comes first. Cup is just icing on the cake. The key to winning a cup in today's NHL is TIMING. You need to have a few stars and sign them to long term contracts and hope they overplay their contracts...look at the Bruins and the Blues...nobody makes over 7.5. Look at MacKinnon in Colorado, arguably the best player in the NHL the last 2 seasons and he's only making 6 million per season over 6 year contract. The Leafs had good value in Kadri and Rielly contracts. That's also why I said when Leafs signed Nylander to 6.9 and everyone was saying overpaid, I was saying they got a great deal, a bargain, a steal. 6.9 looks a lot smaller today than it did 9 months ago, because now we are dealing with 11, 12, 15 million dollar contracts. At this point, IDC anymore who is on our team. As long as we win a Cup is all that matters. So trade Marner and get 4 1st round picks, I'm fine with that. Matthews can go to Arizona in 5 years, whatever. None of it matters. Only thing that matters is timing. Get the right mix of players, old and young, expensive and cheap, seasoned veterans and rookies, and a hot goalie, you can win the cup ANY YEAR.

It's not about that he wants more money, he wants to have a mid term contract and would take the same AAV.

Steve! Everyone! The time is now! It's time to break open the Marner jar.

So...Am I the only one here thinking Tavares would be a much better option to become Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs? At least we know he'll be in Toronto these next 6 seasons...

Greed is a helluva drug...

As an impartial capitals fan I am dying reading these comments... The leafs will never win with 40m tied up in 4 players.

I watched this one first before watching "Marner Re-Signs" because I skipped it expecting a rant, I'm somewhat surprised this was more sensible than what others in the media have said. They were mostly wrong that the two sides were far apart and the 11 mil x 7 was actually closer than they thought.

Finished watching this just as the notification came inherently signed haha

I’m surprised I watched this whole video. I’m so sick of hearing about it but this was refreshing somehow. I don’t cheer for the leafs at all either but still I liked this take and enjoyed the vid thanks Steve

Finally marner is signed. This is next day

This is making me crazy Steve

Tides are crashing in on Mitch by the fans . He's turning heel .

Some advice. Don't make yourselves sick over it. The sun will come out tomorrow. Trade Marner to TBL for Point. What fun.

Hahahaha after this amazing in depth video of course he signs today lol im dead lol love ya steve!!!! Such a relief!!!! LETS GO LEAFSSSS!!!!!!!

i love how mitch got signed the day after steve posted this lolll

if mariner dont want to sign 7-8 years for 11 plus a year then we should let him go and spend the cash on defence and a player who would be more then happy to just play for the leafs not a panzy who just wants to put the leafs in a spot

I heard the handshake deal has been done for awhile now. Dubas knows the whole league-wide RFA situation is handcuffed until Marners numbers come out... so he asked everyone to keep quiet... They will sign and officially announce at last possible minute. “Do anything to kick your enemies, just like you’d do anything to help your friends.”

Marner is really just in it for the Money...all his actions are now loud and clear.

Marner has a bad side, he bullied my cousin when he was 14 because they both played on the same team and marner would make him feel like shit basically, there ya go, a bad story about Mitch marner

No one needs these kinds of dollars. No one. Also, Marner can always tell his agent to accept a deal so let's not pretend he is not to blame.

I kind of hope Montreal offer sheets him, it would reinvigorate the rivalry.

The NHL has changed rapidly to a young mans game, it used to be players were done by 35 , now 30 is considered 'old'. I think we're seeing the impact of this now as players aren't prepared to wait until 28-29 for UFA , they want the big bucks now or UFA earlier...

Buddy you better be making a video right now

It’s outta control

trade marner, and with the hate he'll have if he sticks to this path good luck living in the GTA. congrats on the fastest hero to villain transition in a long time

If it drags into the actual season, I’ll feel okay to trade him away. Don’t want another circus in town and I don’t love him as much anymore. Just want to watch hockey.

People laughed at me when I said back in January Marner is going to want Matthews or Tavares money. This is Nylander all over again.

Boo Marner when he signs his 12 aav for 6 years

this aged well

I've literally staying for something to get done or at least progress to be made.please mitch hurry up,I want to sleep good before the season starts

Love to watch you Steve. So theatrical. I am laughing at all this from a distance. Florida And listening to a Barred owl outside my window. So much drama.

BREAKING! Marner signs at 9.5 million a year for a four year contract with a felching stipulation!

Steve is starting to get a bald spot

Trade Marner for RNH and Nurse so Edmonton can overpay him and become truely a one line team.

They should trade him on principle alone.

start with your imagined amount for Marner; whether it's 8 or 9 or 10 or more. Now how much of it is his signing bonus because we hear so much about escrow: Tavares got 92% signing bonus Matthews 94% signing bonus Nylander got 54% signing bonus (Nylander received 12 mil last year for 27 points) all the while Marner is watching Nylanders 12 mil pymt. PS Aho received a 91% signing bonus, approx the same percentage as Panarin.

Yes

Plot twist: *marner joins the carolina hurricanes*

Hell yeah.

You guys should just trade him for picks and prospects. He would get quite the package.

The old news clip of Paul Marner is hugely telling. Why does wanting the best for your son equal money? That's not what a good parent solely wants.

This is very similar to the Aho situation, in that the teams are willing to pay more but want the longer term. But “THE HURRICANES DIDN’T WANT TO PAY THEIR STAR” vs. “MARNER IS SELFISH” narratives are very emblematic of elitist attitudes still in hockey

Marners dad needs to stay out of the contract talk... 116 million, you're set.

I feel like he deserves to get booed. Not every game, but his first game back. Fans are pissed and deserve to let him know then move on. I don’t think fans are stupid for that.

Well marner just signed and I hadn't got around to watching this yet

And next year Barrie will ask for the moon...

I would be furious with this situation if I was a leafs fan. I was pissed Werenski held out as long as he did. It’s ok to be pissed at a player or an organization.