Top 5 Burnings Questions for the Toronto Maple Leafs Heading into 2024-25

3. What Happens With Mitch Marner?

MItch Marner has been given the Jake Gardiner treatment by the loudest portion of the Leafs fanbase this summer.

Fortunately for those of us not buying into the group-think, it seems this loud contingent of fans is just a bunch of people on social media falling victim to bad information. The vast, vast, vast majority of Leafs Fans are also huge Mitch Marner fans, and understand that he needs to be re-signed.

But will he be? Or will the Leafs succumb to the will of a very small minority of people who are experts at using the megaphone of social media to make it seem like they represnt a larger portion of the population than they really do?

I have a hard time believing the Leafs would seriously consider trading Marner when he has a full no-movement clause in his contract and is living the dream of every kid from southern ontario by actually playing, and starring, on the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Add in the fact that teams who trade future hall of fame players always regret it.

Add in the fact that both Jack Eichel and Matt Tkachuk's new teams won the Stanley Cup almost immediately after acquiring them.

Add in the fact that the Leafs GM is the one who sent Tkachuk to Florida and ask yourself if he'd have the nerve to make his next big trade the one that sends Marner out of Toronto to win the Stanley Cup with another team.

It's pretty obvious that the Leafs have no choice to re-sign him.

The cost should be determined this week when Mikko Rantanen signs an extention with the Colorado Avalanche.