With the Mitch Marner signing being official, Leafs Nation can breath a collective sigh of relief, as Markham's favourite son is firmly rooted in Toronto for the foreseeable future.
The dynamic winger addressed the hockey world via Twitter after his contract signing, stating that he is exactly where he wants to be.
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With Marner's 6-year, $65.358 million contract in the books, ($10.893M), to go along with John Tavares ($11M) and Auston Matthews ($11.634M), the Maple Leafs currently possess three of the top seven highest paid players in the entire NHL.
Per TSN's Pierre LeBrun, Mike Babcock has confirmed that Marner, along with John Tavares, will to fly to Paradise, Newfoundland today to meet up with the Leafs on this, the 2nd day of Leafs training camp.
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Meanwhile, in an interview with TSN, Marner expressed his displeasure with some of the comments on social media regarding his family during the negotiations.
"Social media has its benefits; it's good for certain things, but it's also good for bad things," said Marner as per TSN. "People express their hate for people on that. It's something that a lot of athletes go through on social media is the hate. It was more so just seeing all the stuff being said about my family on social media that made me disappointed and mad. I expected stuff to come at Darren [Ferris] and myself, but I saw a couple of comments about my father that no one is going to like seeing or reading. Pretty disappointed to see some people express themselves about my family and my family name."
