On Marner...
You won't hear this one publicly, but I am told the Leafs have internally set an "end of July" deadline to come to terms with Mitch Marner...
"After last year's holdout and all Kyle did to open up space we need to know this player is with us, and if he is not we need to do a whole lot to fill some even wider needs," a source close to the Leafs situation informed me this morning, "We feel we've done a lot here to show our desire to have Mitch a Leaf for life, but everyone hates not having any control."
I texted back, "Any progress towards a deal?"
His response, "Hard to tell. We have put out various scenarios, and we need to know which they want, shorter, longer, etc. Once we know, yes a deal can get done very quickly."
On Gardiner...
"Expect big news in the next 24 hours."
I am digging...
Salary Arbitration Dates Via the NHLPA
July 20
Joel Armia Jordan Binnington Jason Dickinson Alex Iafallo Brock McGinn
July 21
Andrew Copp
July 22
Zach Aston-Reese Christian Djoos Ville Husso MacKenzie Weegar
July 23
Evan Rodrigues
July 24
Neal Pionk Oskar Sundqvist
July 25
Connor Carrick Jacob Trouba
July 26
Colton Sissons July 27
Sam Bennett Chase DeLeo
July 28
Mirco Mueller
July 29
Pavel Buchnevich David Rittich
July 30
Scott Laughton July 31
J.T. Compher
August 1
Remi Elie Ryan Lomberg Chandler Stephenson
August 2
Will Butcher Charles Hudon Linus Ullmark
August 3
Artturi Lehkonen
August 4
Sheldon Dries Joel Edmundson Anton Forsberg Rocco Grimaldi Jake McCabe Rinat Valiev
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