Mitch Marner Trade: The Preds position themselves as top contenders
The Nashville Predators positionned themselves as top contenders to land Mitch Marner from the Toronto Maple Leafs on the trade market.
The Leafs' management made it clear in their end-of-season media availability that they want the team to be better as soon as next season. To do so, they started by firing Sheldon Keefe and hire Craig Berube as head coach:
Now that it's done, they can focus on improving the roster.
One of the main issues lies with Mitch Marner. He has a year remaining on his contract, and with all that happened in the past month in Toronto, it seems evident that Treliving would consider trading him for the sake of the team's future.
If the GM decides to take that road, they'll likely look into making a deal with the Nashville Predators.
They recently made a major move that could indicate their intentions to go after an important player on the trade market.
Indeed, they traded Ryan McDonagh back to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for two draft picks:
Many people believe that this move indicates something else is coming in Nashville:
"After talking to a few people, the sense is the McDonagh trade is a precursor to an aggressive pursuit of a high-end scorer by Barry Trotz
The Mitch Marner stans are going to be insufferable now"
"We now have 3 1st round picks and 5 2nd round picks for the next 2 years of drafts!
Big move coming????"
That's a lot of draft picks for a team who isn't rebuilding and have one of the best goalie prospects in the NHL with Yaroslav Askarov.
With that in mind, Trotz could be interested in parting ways with Juuse Saros, something that could interest the Maple Leafs.
Would you like to see Mitch Marner and Juuse Saros involved in a trade between the Nashville Predators and the Toronto Maple Leafs?
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