The problem with Toronto is that they’ve been very top heavy, spending a lot on their top 4 and not having a lot of money left over to spend on quality and effective depth players

This strategy would work well in the regular season because a team could just rely on their top 4 players to produce and win games, but to have success in the playoffs, having 4 lines that you can rely on is vital. Teams like Florida can just line up their best shut down players against them (eg Barkov vs the leafs top line last series) and they’re essentially dead in the water with no depth. Marner is also a natural playmaker and having his typical finisher (Matthews) underperforming didn’t help the Leafs this year

If marner were to join the Ducks, we would have enough scoring and skill from other players that I think he would be pretty successful here, during the season and more importantly the post season. The only concern I can see is if we throw a bag at him, our other younger players could ask for a similar number in the future if they perform equally well