Maple Leafs move Marner to Golden Knights in sign-and-trade: reports

Mitch Marner seems to be ready to call without City Home.

According to multiple media reports on Monday, the Maple Leafs are exchanging Marner to Las Vegas Golden Knights in an exchange that ends with their fascinating, sometimes, frustrating Toronto’s possession.

According to the reports, the talented extreme agreed an eight -year -old American contract and $ 96 million with the Leafs before the agreement with Vegas. Marner could only sign a seven -year contract in the NHL open market if he had reached free agency without restrictions on Tuesday.

The details of what Toronto would receive if the exchange is going are not clear, although the name of the depth center of Nicolas Roy during the weekend and again on Monday was rumored.

Marner’s highly anticipated game joins an arc in nine roller mountain campaigns with the team he cheered as a child.

The product of nearby Thornhill, Ontario. -Posibly the most talented local player who has ever put a Toronto shirt, had exceptional success in the regular season along with the Auston Matthews, William Nylander and John Tavares.

Marner recorded four more than 90 points points, including Cracking 100 for the first time in 2024-25.

The playoffs, however, were a completely different matter.

Marner, who signed a six -year contract extension with Toronto with a value of more than $ 65 million in September 2019, became a lightning rod for criticism between a rabid fans base in the largest media market in the game.

He put 63 points (13 goals, 50 assists) in 70 playoff competitions, but the club made the second round twice in the nine seasons of Marner.

The number 4 selection in the 2015 Draft inability to intensify great moments for Leafs was difficult to reconcile.

In games 5, 6 and 7 from 2017 to 2025, he scored only once and added 10 assists in 26 competitions. Marner established three goals in the Covid-19 2020 bubble with Toronto 2-1 and faced the elimination in its preliminary round of five set games against Columbus, but was held without a point in the Blue Jackets series in La Victoria.

However, there were many culprits, since the Leafs achieved only two victories in the 11th series in the Matthews-Marner era. Toronto has lost the six games 7 has played since 2018, but also fell to the eventual winner of the Cup or runner -up five times.

The last 28 -year -old Marner contract, a negotiated pact with former general manager Kyle Dubas who brought him an annual compensation of $ 11 million, included a complete clause without movements during his last two seasons, which limited the leafs options after that writing on July 1, 2024.

He asked blank if he wanted to stay with the Leafs after the second round playoffs out of this spring when Toronto fell into seven games to the Florida Panthers, a group that would raise his second consecutive Stanley Cup, Marner did not respond directly.

“I always loved my time here, I loved being here,” Marner said on May 20. “I’ve been very grateful. I haven’t prosecuted anything yet. It’s still very fresh.”

The Leafs made a couple of other movements on Monday, acquiring Matias Maccelli of the UTAH Mammoth for a third -round conditional team in 2027 before signing the forward Steven Lorentz again.

If Toronto arrives at the playoffs and Maccelli records 51 points next season, the team becomes a second round in 2029.

Maccelli had eight goals and 10 assists in 55 games for Utah last season. The 24-year-old FINN produced maximums of 17 goals and 57 points in 2023-24. Maccelli has a remaining year in his contract with a salary blow of $ 3,425 million.

Meanwhile, Lorentz agreed an extension of three years and $ 4.05 million after producing 19 points (eight goals, 11 assists) in 80 games in 2024-25.

According to reports, Toronto signed a six -year extension of $ 46.5 million on Sunday.

Ekblad, Marchand, stay with Panthers

The defense Aaron Ekblad stays with the Florida Panthers instead of becoming a free agent.

Ekblad is signing again with the two -time Defensor Champions of the Stanley Cup in an eight -year contract worth $ 48.8 million, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement.

According to reports, the Panthers also agreed long -term agreements with striker Brad Marchand.

People spoke with Associated Press based on anonymity on Monday because the measure had not been announced.

Ekblad signed an agreement that pays an average of $ 6.1 million per season after the Panthers also brought back the MVP of the playoffs Sam Bennett. He had been winning $ 7.5 million a year in his last agreement and seemed to leave money on the table and give the only NHL organization that has been part of a hometown discount.

Now 29, Ekblad has been part of the Florida core since it was the number 1 choice in the Draft in 2014. With Ekblad, Seth Jones and Gustav that were headed in the long term, the first four in defense will be established for most of the next decade once Niko Mikkola, which stays a year in their current contract, extends.

Acquire wild tarasenko

The Minnesota Wild won a twice champion of the Stanley Cup for nothing on the eve of NHL’s free agency, and New York islanders locked one of their best young players with a long -term contract.

The wild acquired end Vladimir Tarasenko of the Detroit Red Wings on Monday for future considerations.

The islanders again signed the defense Alexander Romanov to an eight -year contract that a person with knowledge of the extension said it is worth $ 50 million in the United States.

The person spoke with Associated Press on anonymity because the terms were not revealed. Romanov will have $ 6.25 million compared to the salary limit until the 2032-33 season.

Tarasenko, 33, has a year left in his contract with a salary limit of $ 4.75 million.

He helped Florida win the Cup last year after being a key part of the St. Louis Championship race in 2019.

Oilers extend Bouchard, Kapanen

The Edmonton Oilers signed the Star Evan Bouchard defense with a four -year contract and $ 42 million on Monday, according to multiple media reports.

The hard shot Bouchard, known for his “Bouch Bomb” from the point, will become a restricted free agent.

Oakville’s 25 -year -old player, Ontario, gains a mass increase in his previous salary blow of $ 3.9 million after consecutive high production seasons to help Edmonton enter the Stanley Cup final twice.

Kapanen, 28, had 13 points in 57 regular seasonal games and added six more in 12 appearances in the playoffs after being claimed outside the exemptions of St. Louis Blues.

The Oilers also signed the Noah Philp center on Monday with a two -year -old contract worth $ 775,000.

Philp, 26, appeared in 15 games for Edmonton last season and recorded two assists.

The Native of Canmore, Alta., Had 35 points, including 19 goals, in 55 games with the Bakersfield condors of Ahl.

The strikers of Edmonton Corey Perry, Connor Brown and Jeff Skinner, together with the defense John Klingberg, remain unproven and will become free agents without restrictions.

The center of the superstar of the oilers, Connor McDavid, has a year left in its current agreement, but will be eligible to sign a new contract for the 2026-27 season and beyond.

Free agency starts Tuesday at 12 pm et.