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Marner has been the subject of trade rumors since the season ended as he has one year left on his six-year $65.4 million deal he signed in 2019. Although Marner has a full no-movement clause, meaning he can block any trade, but many reports have said he would be willing to be traded to a couple of teams.

However, on June 28 while speaking on his 32 Thoughts podcast, Friedman revealed that Toronto is looking to extend Marner.

“I’m going to stay away from the hot scalding pot that is Mitch Marner, aside to say that I do think they’re preparing to make him an offer, we’ll see,” Friedman said.

It is interesting that Friedman believes the Maple Leafs are preparing an offer for Marner as all the speculation was that Toronto was going to trade the skilled winger.

“That’d be a goal. I’ve expressed my love for this place. Obviously, I’ve grown up here so we’ll start thinking about that now and try to figure something out. It means the world (to be a Maple Leaf), we’re looked upon as, you know, kind of Gods here to be honest,” Marner said to the media on May 6.

“It’s something that you really appreciate and the love that you get here from this fanbase and this tension is kind of not unlike any other. You saw it with the Raptors a couple of years ago, the love that they still have for a lot of those players that they had to trade off this year. And that’s kind of the love you want,” Marner added.

“I’d caution us to not pay too much attention to some of the noise. We can’t react to all of the noise. … Mitch knows how I feel about him as a player,” Treliving said to the media, according to Chris Johnston.