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Draft Weekend Thoughts: The Marleau Deal, Marner Saga, PK Subban on the move again, and the latest on Nikita Zaitsev

A very good screenshot of Kyle Dubas holding two telephones pic.twitter.com/soOvw0404u

— RMNB (@russianmachine) June 22, 2019

A picture says a thousand words. On that note, let’s get into a few post-draft weekend thoughts.

The Marleau deal

Patrick Marleau had a really good season for the Leafs in 2016-17 and likely contributed in all kinds of ways we can’t fully appreciate from the outside looking in as far as his impact on the young core off the ice. But it was always the third year of this term — extending past the end of the Leafs’ ELC window with Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews — that made you wince about that signing.