It’s official: these four players are being transferred by the Maple Leafs today… click to view details.
The word coming out of the NHL draft at the end of June in Las Vegas was that if — a big if — was going to be traded, it would take some time to consummate and probably wouldn’t happen for a couple of weeks.
We’re heading into that territory on the calendar now, but there has been nothing to lead anyone to believe that a Marner trade actually will happen.
The line from Marner’s camp all along is that the star winger will be in camp in September with the Leafs as he heads into the final year of his contract. As we say, there has been nothing concrete to expect anything otherwise.
Still, there’s no doubt that the Marner issue remains delicate.
A year ago, Leafs general manager Brad Treliving made it clear that re-signing Auston Matthews and William Nylander to an extension occupied the top of his to-do list. And those signings happened, as Matthews was extended for four years in August and Nylander for eight years in January.
