The Toronto Maple Leafs made a retroactive move to place Mitch Marner on LTIR to free up cap space to recall Marshall Rifai with a $775,000 cap hit. This brings the total LTIR relief for Toronto to $27,465,500. Marner’s injury status remains unchanged, and the move was made to strengthen the defense for the game in Buffalo due to multiple injuries on the blue line. Marner will miss his 10th consecutive game tonight but could return from LTIR as early as Monday. Marner expressed his frustration with his prolonged absence and injury situation in a recent media interview.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have placed Mitch Marner on retroactive LTIR to create cap space for another roster move. Marner, who has been out due to injury, expressed frustration with the media coverage surrounding his injury. Despite this, the Leafs will be happy to have him back in the lineup soon.
