Darren Ferris told Pierre Lebrun of TSN and The Athletic that it’s “100 percent,” that Marner won’t sign in-season. And it will work against the Leafs’ salary cap interest in the cases Marner, Auston Matthews and even likely Kasperi Kapanen. At the beginning of the season, I’d have put Matthews at $12-$13 million, Marner at $8-$10 million, Kapanen and Andreas Johnsson at about $2 million. Article Continued BelowWaiting could have cost the Leafs cap space $3 million. But of course he should have been smart enough to know that waiting to sign free agents would only prove more costly down the line.

Source: thestar January 10, 2019 14:37 UTC