'The Habs don’t have to worry about Mitch Marner in the free agents'

The free-agent frenzy is knocking at the door, and several very interesting names will be available.

Brock Nelson avoided this by recently signing a three-year, $7.5 million-a-year contract.

Nonetheless, there should be other big names in the pipeline (assuming there are no further contract extensions between now and July 1).

Sam Bennett is one, but there’s also Mitch Marner, who should break the bank on his next contract.

The latter is highly unlikely to return to Toronto next year, given Marner’s current unfavourable situation.

The Montreal Canadiens could very well be interested in the talented right-winger, but Arpon Basu believes that the Habs should not offer the Canadian player a contract.

In fact, they shouldn’t even bother with Marner when the free agent market opens, as he so eloquently puts it in this article from The Athletic.

And I completely agree with Basu on this.

Although Marner is one of the best playmakers in the NHL, his attitude doesn’t seem to fit in with the Habs dressing room at all.

Need we remind you of the most recent series, when he literally yelled at his teammates, saying “Wake the f*ck up!

And let’s not forget William Nylander in the 2024 series, when he threw an arrow at his teammate, telling him to stop crying and play hockey.

That says a lot about the kind of person Marner is, and we don’t want that in Montreal.

My colleague Félix Forget recently wrote an article saying that David Pagnotta thinks the Habs will show interest in Marner.