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The Toronto Maple Leafs person dealt guardant Mitch Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights connected the eve of escaped agency, sources told ESPN's Emily Kaplan connected Monday.
About to trial the unrestricted marketplace for the archetypal time, Marner was easy 1 of the biggest names connected the lists of respective teams this summer.
An accomplished extremity scorer, who conscionable wrapped up a six-year restricted woody with the Maple Leafs that carried a $10.9 cardinal salary-cap hit, Marner, 28, volition bring instant discourtesy to his caller team's apical line. He had 27 goals and 102 points with Toronto past season, arsenic the Maple Leafs raced to the Atlantic Division title. The durable Marner, the erstwhile No. 4 wide prime successful the 2015 draft, has 221 goals and 741 points crossed his career, and he's reached 80 games successful 4 of his 9 seasons.
A autochthonal of Markham, Ontario, Marner has been a main absorption of the Toronto media for astir a decade, and speech from the Maple Leafs' frenzied postseason run, his pending escaped bureau was the biggest communicative surrounding the franchise astir of the season.
