Mitch Marner Embraces New Life with Vegas Golden Knights

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00:00because i watched that mitch martyr introduction uh in vegas and me and gabe talked about it a

00:07little bit earlier i thought it was hilarious because a you could tell he had been like

00:13planning his escape for months like you know he was talked about how he talked to guys at the

00:19four nations uh you know he got a lay of the land for living in vegas the team's that championship

00:26pedigree all these great things this guy was smiling ear to ear yesterday as he threw on that

00:32vegas golden knight sweater and got as far away from toronto as humanly possible here is mitch

00:38marner i mean obviously the winning regimen they've put up through the last five years of really since

00:43they've been in the league um got such a competitive team every year got such good players here um

00:49you know the living arrangements from talking to patch ready and revo just through the last couple

00:54weeks um you know it seemed like everything was a pretty good fit for my wife and i and our new son

01:00and um yeah the winning aspect of this team really helped and everything as well and you know the

01:06great players they have here so um lucky enough it all worked out and um you know this is where we

01:11wanted to be i know people uh cam and you'd be able to attest this more than i can uh but because

01:18i'm only i'm only getting it from the social media aspect of it which as you know anywhere can be

01:25completely overblown because you never know if that's like the real feel of what uh is actually

01:30going on with the population it seems like everyone toronto is extremely pissed off at marner uh about all

01:36of this about basically plotting to go to vegas for months and that uh that's where we wanted to go but

01:42let's be fair here cam can you really blame the guy i mean can you really blame the guy i said to

01:49gabe earlier it's like you're going from a situation where you've got 30 to 40 microphones in your face

01:56every single night win lose or draw from the opening day of training camp to the last day of the season

02:03where every single night is live or die like it's game seven of the stanley cup final and you're going to

02:08be the fall guy no matter what you and matthews and you know you're no matter what happens you're all

02:14going to take the brunt of the fans in the media and now cam he gets to trade all of that in

02:19for 12 million bucks two or three microphones in his face and the life of riley in sin city las vegas

02:29yeah hard to blame the guy cam to be quite honest with you uh hard to know what it is know what it is

02:35too carver i'm not one of these guys but the arrogance of the organization like everybody

02:40wants to play for you you are the be all and end now let me tell you something as a leaf fan

02:45nobody does it better in montreal for ceremonies whatever i tell gabe this all the time he knows

02:50this he covered the team and i've covered the leaves the leaves it's a stressful environment i've

02:54talked to guys who played in the league have gone to other teams that were happy to leave toronto i'm

02:59not saying you know it's great to play for them when things are good when things are bad very similar

03:03to the yankees you know what i mean it's like there's other places around too it's like but the

03:07problem is these guys are serious it's a heart attack look at that look at when he when marner

03:11left they got cheerleaders they have the gila monster for the kid and he's like going through

03:15hey pom-poms the leafs all your microphones stress whatever like everything in toronto to carver let me

03:23tell you as a fan it feels fabricated they need it's just one of those things it's like man like

03:29i'd sure would you blame a guy that's why guys go to florida that's why go go to vegas and dallas

03:34the no tax too it's like it's not easy playing in this city because there's so much negativity around

03:40it too guys got a young kid he says let's get out of dodge so i don't blame him i'll tell you one

03:45thing the least aren't going to be as good without marner one of the best assist guys he sets everybody up

03:49so now what they get worse probably like it's it's it's a problem and let me tell you this too

03:58uh and i'll get this out there in the open as well because um the islander fans took a lot from the

04:05toronto media and the toronto fans calling the islander fans classless after how they treated

04:11tavares and all those things for him leaving for toronto and i get it cam there's some different

04:16situations there tavares is from toronto i mean let's marner's from toronto and he left

04:22toronto to go somewhere else so i think it is funny shoe on the other foot that after what they uh how

04:30they acted towards islander fans being upset and rightfully so that tavares went and ran up to

04:36toronto and how auto they're booing in or why are you booing on why i want to see the marner reception

04:43when he comes to toronto next year uh the one time with vegas i want to see i can't wait to see

04:48the marner reception because will it be as bad as the tavares reception was in the nassau coliseum

04:54that night and i was in the building that night it was unbelievable it probably won't be that like

04:58that but i guarantee you they're gonna boot the hell out of him cam guarantee i'll tell you one

05:02thing too the media twists this thing they're the ones who say oh he left and he did this but you did

05:07nothing to help the guy stay either this organization wanted to trade him and such like

05:12i don't understand the ire of the people and i'm a leaf fan if you treated me like that too maybe i'd

05:19leave if i got a better job offer i'd bolt i'm in vegas i'm making tons of money i got a young family

05:25the taxes are better like it's one of those situations less pressure what isn't there to like

05:29and they're already a contender

05:31you

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