Insider shares some potentially problematic news on Mitch Marner

Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman has dropped some Mitch Marner news that may not make Toronto Maple Leafs fans feel too good about the situation.

Since the Leafs bowed out to the Bruins in Game 7, suffering yet another disappointing 1st round loss, most of the talk in Toronto has been about cleaning house. Fans seem to want Sheldon Keefe and Brendan Shanahan gone the most, but the next target on their hit list is Mitch Marner.

There has been a lot of dialogue about whether Marner should stay or go this summer, as the Leafs look to improve when and where they can, but on Wednesday's edition of 32 Thoughts, the podcast, Friedman mentioned that Marner's agent, Darren Ferris, may simply advise Mitch to just wait it out and become a UFA.


Obviously, with Marner owning a full no-movement clause, he controls his fate in Toronto. If he wants to remain a Leaf, there's no one who can prevent him from remaining a Leaf.

In having said that, given all of the tension that already exists between the media and Mitch Marner, I'm not completely sold on the idea that he wants to endure a year's worth of mental anguish if he refuses to waive either.

At this point, there's been no indication that the Leafs organization intends to approach any players about waiving their NMC's or NTC's, so until we receive some news on that front, I suppose the hypothetical Marner trade scenarios will remain just that - hypothetical.