As the 28-year-old approaches the market, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman brought back a past Toronto effort to move Marner away from Canada. That could have been the case in the summer of 2024, when there was a failed blockbuster trade attempt between the Leafs and the Vegas Golden Knights.

The Toronto Maple Leafs’ Mitch Marner may be the team’s biggest unrestricted free agent in the last 30 years. Unfortunately, according to TSN’s Darren Dreger—when he was a guest on the Leafs Morning Take podcast—it seems like the organization doesn’t have a real good chance at re-signing him.