{"id":3202,"date":"2025-06-21T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3202\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T19:50:08","slug":"marner-tavares-toninato-del-gaizo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/3202\/","title":{"rendered":"Marner, Tavares, Toninato, Del Gaizo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the top pending unrestricted free agent, winger <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marnemi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitch Marner<\/a><\/strong> will have a chance to choose between a bunch of contract options.\u00a0 According to Pierre LeBrun in his latest post for The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6442128\/2025\/06\/21\/nhl-free-agency-rumblings-marner-mcdavid-tavares\/\" rel=\"noopener\">subscription link<\/a>), a couple of teams believe that Marner is considering signing just a two-year deal this summer with the hopes of getting a long-term contract in place in 2027 when the Upper Limit of the salary cap is projected to be around $113MM at that time.\u00a0 The value of the two-year pact would still likely surpass that of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s AAV ($12MM) with Dallas, the new benchmark for a contract given to a winger.\u00a0 The 28-year-old had 27 goals and 75 assists in 81 games this season for the Maple Leafs while adding 13 points in 13 playoff contests.<\/p>\n<p>Other news regarding players set to hit the open market next month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Maple Leafs and center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Tavares<\/a><\/strong> are still not close on a new contract. Tavares has made it known that his desire is to remain with Toronto while the Leafs are hoping that he\u2019ll leave some money on the table to do so.\u00a0 However, he\u2019s the top middleman in a thinning UFA group at that position and is coming off a 38-goal, 74-point season.\u00a0 Realistically, he could push for $7.5MM or more on a multi-year deal if he gets to July 1st.\u00a0 Speculatively, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see Toronto offering a long-term deal at a lower rate per season to maximize their cap flexibility this summer.<\/li>\n<li>Pending UFA center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tonindo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dominic Toninato<\/a><\/strong> has dropped his agent Neil Sheehy, relays Murat Ates of The Athletic (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6438453\/2025\/06\/21\/winnipeg-jets-jonathan-toews-nikolaj-ehlers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">subscription link<\/a>). Instead of hiring a new one, he plans to represent himself in negotiations this summer.\u00a0 The 31-year-old has spent the last five seasons with the Jets although most of his playing time has come with AHL Manitoba.\u00a0 Toninato was held off the scoresheet in five games with Winnipeg this season while he had 18 goals and 18 assists with the Moose.\u00a0 He\u2019s a strong candidate to sign another two-way pact with the team before much longer.<\/li>\n<li>Defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/delgama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-21_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marc Del Gaizo<\/a><\/strong> won\u2019t be returning to the Predators next season, reports Lower Broad Hockey\u2019s Nick Kieser (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KieserNick\/status\/1936450418877305037\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 25-year-old is eligible to become a Group Six free agent next month and it appears that he\u2019ll test the market instead of re-signing.\u00a0 Del Gaizo played in 44 games with Nashville this season, picking up nine points, 53 blocks, and 71 hits while averaging 16:45 per game.\u00a0 He also suited up in 30 games with AHL Milwaukee, notching eight goals and four assists after putting up at least 30 points at that level the previous two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the top pending unrestricted free agent, winger Mitch Marner will have a chance to choose between a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4245,4241,4242,4243,4244,3111,293,62,1304,67,132,68,292],"class_list":{"0":"post-3202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2025-free-agency","9":"tag-dominic-toninato","10":"tag-john-tavares","11":"tag-marc-del-gaizo","12":"tag-mitch-marner","13":"tag-nashville-predators","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114723096165958920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}