Maple Leafs' Mitch Marner predicted to depart for shocking team for $100 million

The NHL offseason has already kicked into high gear with trades that have been announced, but the offseason is just getting started. Free agency is right around the corner and there are big names on the market this year. 

Perhaps the biggest name that fans are anxious to see a decision on is Toronto Maple Leafs right winger Mitch Marner.

Josh Erickson, a writer for Pro Hockey Rumors, predicts that Marner will move across the continent to join the Anaheim Ducks for a 7-year deal worth $14.25 million per year.

“Since beginning his NHL career in 2016, the lifelong Maple Leaf is eighth in the league with 741 points in 657 games. After failing to advance past the second round with Toronto again, it’s become a foregone conclusion that he’ll be testing the open market and landing a well-compensated package to take his elite talent to another team,” Erickson believes.

Marner is coming off another season where he finished with over 100 points with 102. Marner scored 27 goals and assisted on 75 of them in the regular season before adding on an additional 13 points in 13 postseason games for Toronto.

The postseason history of the Maple Leafs this century is well-known. Toronto won the Atlantic and was the No. 2 overall team in the Eastern Conference, but blew a 2-0 series lead in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs to the back-to-back champions in the Florida Panthers.

With his success, Marner could easily find a team to pay him the money he wants and it just may end up being Anaheim.