With Auston Matthews and William Nylander locked into long-term deals, the Toronto Maple Leafs just need to lock up Marner and they’ll have succeeded in keeping their “Big Three” intact.
While the never ending will-they-or-won’t they is approaching Ross and Rachel proportions, the upside is that, eventually, the Leafs will have done something hardly anyone thought they could pull off:
Signing all three players without resorting to trading one.
Nevertheless, it is September, the season is about to get underway in less than a month, and the Leafs third-best player is still without a contract.