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Insider Has Maple Leafs Landing $68 Million Defensemen In Mock Mitch Marner Trade

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Insider Has Maple Leafs Landing $68 Million Defensemen In Mock Mitch Marner Trade

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By Cole Shelton

Updated Jun 27, 2024 at 11:59am

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An insider has mocked Mitch Marner to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

 

NHL insider and reporter James Mirtle of The Athletic speculates the Toronto Maple Leafs may trade Mitch Marner in a one-for-one deal for Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev.

Marner is atop many trade bait boards entering the offseason as he enters the final year of the six-year $65.4 million deal he signed with the Maple Leafs in 2019. Since Toronto has been eliminated from the playoffs, Marner has been the subject of trade rumors, and Mirtle believes Tampa Bay is a dark horse team to land him and could deal Sergachev for him.

“Maybe something with the Lightning, who look like they could be movers and shakers here. It would be Sergachev,” Mirtle said on the JD Bunkis show on Sportsnet on June 26

Sergachev has seven years left on the eight-year $68 million deal he signed on July 13, 2022. The Russian also doesn’t have any trade protection until July 1, so if Tampa Bay does pull the trigger on this mock deal, they will need to make it happen before July 1 without needing Sergachev to agree to the deal.