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

Mitch Marner appears acceptable to telephone Sin City home.

According to aggregate media reports Monday, the Maple Leafs are trading Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights successful a swap that ends his at-times mesmerizing, at-times frustrating Toronto tenure.

The talented winger reportedly agreed to an eight-year, $96-million US declaration with the Leafs up of the woody with Vegas. Marner would person lone been capable to motion a seven-year declaration connected the NHL's unfastened marketplace had helium deed unrestricted escaped bureau Tuesday.

Details of what Toronto would person should the commercialized spell done are unclear, though extent centre Nicolas Roy's sanction was rumoured implicit the play and again Monday.

Marner's long-anticipated departure ties a bow connected 9 roller-coaster campaigns with the squad helium cheered for arsenic a kid.

The merchandise of adjacent Thornhill, Ont. — arguably the astir talented section subordinate to ever don a Toronto jersey — had exceptional regular-season occurrence alongside chap prima forwards Auston Matthews, William Nylander and John Tavares.

Marner registered 4 90-plus constituent performances, including cracking 100 for the archetypal clip successful 2024-25.

The playoffs, however, were an wholly antithetic matter.

Marner, who signed a six-year declaration hold with Toronto worthy much than $65 cardinal successful September 2019, became a lightning rod for disapproval among a rabid instrumentality basal successful the game's biggest media market.

He enactment up 63 points (13 goals, 50 assists) successful 70 playoff contests, but the nine made the 2nd circular conscionable doubly successful Marner's 9 seasons.

The No. 4 prime astatine the 2015 draft's inability to measurement up successful large moments for the Leafs was hard to reconcile.

In Games 5, 6 and 7 from 2017 done 2025, helium scored conscionable erstwhile and added 10 assists successful 26 contests. Marner did acceptable up 3 goals successful the 2020 COVID-19 bubble with Toronto down 2-1 and facing elimination successful its five-game preliminary circular acceptable against Columbus, but was held without a constituent successful the Blue Jackets' bid clinching victory.

There were, however, plentifulness of culprits arsenic the Leafs managed conscionable 2 wins successful 11 bid successful the Matthews-Marner era. Toronto has mislaid each six Game 7s its played since 2018, but besides fell to the eventual Cup victor oregon runner-up 5 times.

The 28-year-old Marner's past declaration — a pact negotiated with erstwhile wide manager Kyle Dubas that pushed him adjacent to an yearly compensation of $11 cardinal — included a afloat no-movement clause implicit its last 2 seasons, which constricted the Leafs' options aft that wording kicked successful July 1, 2024.

Asked point-blank if helium wanted to stay with the Leafs pursuing this spring's second-round playoff exit erstwhile Toronto fell successful 7 games to the Florida Panthers — a radical that would spell onto hoist its 2nd consecutive Stanley Cup — Marner didn't reply directly.

"I've ever loved my clip here, I've loved being here," Marner said May 20. "I've been truthful grateful. I haven't processed thing yet. It's inactive truthful fresh."

The Leafs made a mates of different moves Monday, acquiring Matias Maccelli from the Utah Mammoth for a conditional third-round draught prime successful 2027 earlier re-signing chap guardant Steven Lorentz.

If Toronto reaches the playoffs and Maccelli registers 51 points adjacent season, the prime becomes a second-rounder successful 2029.

Maccelli had 8 goals and 10 assists successful 55 games for Utah past season. The 24-year-old Finn produced vocation highs of 17 goals and 57 points successful 2023-24. Maccelli has 1 twelvemonth remaining connected his declaration astatine a $3.425-million wage headdress hit.

Lorentz, meanwhile, has agreed to a three-year, $4.05-million hold aft producing 19 points (eight goals, 11 assists) successful 80 games successful 2024-25.

Toronto reportedly signed winger Matthew Knies to a six-year hold worthy $46.5 cardinal connected Sunday.

Ekblad stays with Panthers connected hometown discount

Defenseman Aaron Ekblad is staying with the Florida Panthers alternatively of becoming a escaped agent.

Ekblad is re-signing with the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions connected an eight-year declaration worthy $48.8 million, according to 2 radical with cognition of the deal.

The radical spoke to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity Monday due to the fact that the determination had not been announced.

Ekblad re-signing connected a woody that pays him an mean of $6.1 cardinal a play comes aft the Panthers besides brought backmost playoff MVP Sam Bennett. He had been making $7.5 cardinal a twelvemonth connected his past woody and appeared to permission wealth connected the array and springiness the lone NHL enactment helium has ever been a portion of a hometown discount.

Now 29, Ekblad has been a portion of Florida's halfway since helium was the No. 1 prime successful the draught successful 2014. With Ekblad, Seth Jones and Gustav Forsling each signed agelong term, the apical 4 connected defence volition beryllium acceptable for the amended portion of the adjacent decennary erstwhile Niko Mikkola, who has a twelvemonth near connected his existent contract, is extended.

Wild get Tarasenko

The Minnesota Wild got a two-time Stanley Cup champion for thing connected the eve of NHL escaped agency, and the New York Islanders locked up 1 of their apical young players to a semipermanent contract.

The Wild acquired winger Vladimir Tarasenko from the Detroit Red Wings connected Monday for aboriginal considerations.

The Islanders re-signed defenceman Alexander Romanov to an eight-year declaration that a idiosyncratic with cognition of the hold said is worthy $50 cardinal US.

The idiosyncratic spoke to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity due to the fact that presumption were not disclosed. Romanov volition number $6.25 cardinal against the wage headdress done the 2032-33 season.

Tarasenko, 33, has 1 twelvemonth near connected his declaration astatine a wage headdress deed of $4.75 million.

He helped Florida triumph the Cup past twelvemonth aft being a cardinal portion of St. Louis' title tally successful 2019.

Oilers widen Bouchard, Kapanen

The Edmonton Oilers re-signed prima defenceman Evan Bouchard to a four-year, $42-million declaration Monday, according to aggregate media reports.

The hard-shooting Bouchard, known for his "Bouch Bomb" from the point, was acceptable to go a restricted escaped agent.

The 25-year-old from Oakville, Ont., earns a monolithic rise connected his erstwhile $3.9-million wage headdress deed aft back-to-back high-production seasons to assistance Edmonton into the Stanley Cup last twice.

Kapanen, 28, had 13 points successful 57 regular-season games and added six much successful 12 playoff appearances aft being claimed disconnected waivers from the St. Louis Blues.

The Oilers besides signed centre Noah Philp connected Monday to a one-year, two-way declaration worthy $775,000.

Philp, 26, appeared successful 15 games for Edmonton past play and recorded 2 assists.

The Canmore, Alta., autochthonal had 35 points, including 19 goals, successful 55 games with the AHL's Bakersfield Condors.

Edmonton forwards Corey Perry, Connor Brown and Jeff Skinner, on with defenceman John Klingberg, stay unsigned and are acceptable to go unrestricted escaped agents.

Oilers superstar centre Connor McDavid has a twelvemonth near connected his existent deal, but volition beryllium eligible to motion a caller declaration for the 2026-27 play and beyond.

Free bureau kicks disconnected Tuesday astatine 12 p.m. ET.