Is it December 1st yet?

A little bit of sarcasm in the title, but a part of me believes that the Leafs might hold out again on signing another big restricted free agent until right before the deadline of December 1st.

This time it's...

Mitch Marner.   This kid is going to command a king's ransom to play for the foreseeable future in the blue and white, and the telling statement that I heard recently about this contract negotiation was from last year's last minute deadline signing, William Nylander.

Nylander basically came out and said that there's plenty of time to get Marner signed.   Yes there is William, there's just under 5 months to the December 1st deadline.  I hope it doesn't go that long, but it would not surprise me to see the Leafs play hardball again and let it drag out.

On the card side of this post, I've started a small Mitch Marner collection to add to the whole bunch of other things I'm collecting.  Marner will not be a top tier collection, just for the simple fact that I'm not willing to pay a king's ransom to collect him.  It will be mostly base and minor inserts/parallels for this collection.  THat includes the 2018-19 MVP silver signature card you see above.

It's hard to believe it's already been 20 years since the first installment of the faux signature parallels came out, and they're still a staple of the MVP sets today.

Glad to see some things never change in the collecting world....

Thanks for reading, and have a great Friday!

Robert