I’m convinced of it, at this point.
Given the lengths to which William Nylander‘s own more unprecedented and infinitely more tolerable negotiations dragged last season – resolving themselves with literal seconds to spare – all signs seem to indicate that Marner’s will reshape the way we view these types of situations.
This is unchartered territory we’ve stumbled onto here. Nylander never cosied up to rival NHL teams during his contract standoff the prior summer; he never attempted to dictate the negotiations by laundering thinly-veiled “reports” through the Twitter account of one particular media member; he never even said a word.