“I can confirm that Mitch Marner will not be back in Toronto.”

In less than three weeks, the NHL free-agent market will open. And unsurprisingly, the name that’s got everyone talking is Mitch Marner.
It’s rare for a player of this calibre to become a free agent, after all.
The big question, then, is where the forward will play next year. Just about everyone expects him to go south of the border… but there was still a possibility of him returning to Toronto.
It wasn’t huge, of course… but now it’s even smaller.
Andy Stri