{"id":85050,"date":"2025-08-21T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:45:06","slug":"maple-leafs-matthews-on-mitch-marners-departure-well-obviously-miss-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85050\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs&#8217; Matthews on Mitch Marner\u2019s departure: &#8216;We&#8217;ll obviously miss him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Maple Leafs star player Auston Matthews says the team will \u201cobviously miss\u201d Mitch Marner, who was traded to the Las Vegas Knights this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking to reporters in Brampton on Wednesday afternoon ahead of Mayor Patrick Brown\u2019s hockey game fundraiser, Matthews was asked about his thoughts on Marner\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll obviously miss him. He\u2019s a great friend, great teammate,\u201d the Leafs centre said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2025\/07\/01\/i-gave-everything-i-had-mitch-marner-headed-to-to-vegas-golden-knights-in-sign-and-trade-deal-with-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/2025\/07\/01\/i-gave-everything-i-had-mitch-marner-headed-to-to-vegas-golden-knights-in-sign-and-trade-deal-with-maple-leafs\/\">was traded in a sign-and-trade deal<\/a> with Vegas. In return, Toronto acquired Nicolas Roy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matthews said trades are part of the business side of the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s tough but obviously I wish him nothing but the best. We\u2019ll just keep it moving,\u201d Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marner\u2019s trade came on the heels of another second-round exit for the Leafs in the Stanley Cup playoffs, losing to the eventual champions, the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When asked how he\u2019s feeling about the upcoming NHL season, the Toronto captain said he\u2019s excited, especially with new teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/toronto-maple-leafs-roster-changes-for-2025-26-season\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/toronto-maple-leafs-roster-changes-for-2025-26-season\">During the offseason<\/a>, the Leafs also acquired forwards Matias Maccelli, Dakota Joshua, and Michael Pezzetta and defenceman Henry Thrun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI know we got a great team and a great group of guys in the locker rooms. So looking forward to kind of getting started,\u201d Matthews said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(It\u2019s) got to take some steps but I think that\u2019s a good problem to have so really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs star player Auston Matthews says the team will \u201cobviously miss\u201d Mitch Marner, who was traded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-85050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}