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Mitch Marner Embraces New Life with Vegas Golden Knights
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because i watched that mitch martyr introduction uh in vegas and me and gabe talked about it a
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little bit earlier i thought it was hilarious because a you could tell he had been like
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planning his escape for months like you know he was talked about how he talked to guys at the
00:19
four nations uh you know he got a lay of the land for living in vegas the team's that championship
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pedigree all these great things this guy was smiling ear to ear yesterday as he threw on that
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vegas golden knight sweater and got as far away from toronto as humanly possible here is mitch
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marner i mean obviously the winning regimen they've put up through the last five years of really since
00:43
they've been in the league um got such a competitive team every year got such good players here um
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you know the living arrangements from talking to patch ready and revo just through the last couple
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weeks um you know it seemed like everything was a pretty good fit for my wife and i and our new son
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and um yeah the winning aspect of this team really helped and everything as well and you know the
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great players they have here so um lucky enough it all worked out and um you know this is where we
01:11
wanted to be i know people uh cam and you'd be able to attest this more than i can uh but because
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i'm only i'm only getting it from the social media aspect of it which as you know anywhere can be
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completely overblown because you never know if that's like the real feel of what uh is actually
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going on with the population it seems like everyone toronto is extremely pissed off at marner uh about all
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of this about basically plotting to go to vegas for months and that uh that's where we wanted to go but
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let's be fair here cam can you really blame the guy i mean can you really blame the guy i said to
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gabe earlier it's like you're going from a situation where you've got 30 to 40 microphones in your face
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every single night win lose or draw from the opening day of training camp to the last day of the season
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where every single night is live or die like it's game seven of the stanley cup final and you're going to
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be the fall guy no matter what you and matthews and you know you're no matter what happens you're all
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going to take the brunt of the fans in the media and now cam he gets to trade all of that in
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for 12 million bucks two or three microphones in his face and the life of riley in sin city las vegas
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yeah hard to blame the guy cam to be quite honest with you uh hard to know what it is know what it is
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too carver i'm not one of these guys but the arrogance of the organization like everybody
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wants to play for you you are the be all and end now let me tell you something as a leaf fan
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nobody does it better in montreal for ceremonies whatever i tell gabe this all the time he knows
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this he covered the team and i've covered the leaves the leaves it's a stressful environment i've
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talked to guys who played in the league have gone to other teams that were happy to leave toronto i'm
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not saying you know it's great to play for them when things are good when things are bad very similar
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to the yankees you know what i mean it's like there's other places around too it's like but the
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problem is these guys are serious it's a heart attack look at that look at when he when marner
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left they got cheerleaders they have the gila monster for the kid and he's like going through
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hey pom-poms the leafs all your microphones stress whatever like everything in toronto to carver let me
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tell you as a fan it feels fabricated they need it's just one of those things it's like man like
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i'd sure would you blame a guy that's why guys go to florida that's why go go to vegas and dallas
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the no tax too it's like it's not easy playing in this city because there's so much negativity around
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it 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
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thing the least aren't going to be as good without marner one of the best assist guys he sets everybody up
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so now what they get worse probably like it's it's it's a problem and let me tell you this too
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uh and i'll get this out there in the open as well because um the islander fans took a lot from the
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toronto media and the toronto fans calling the islander fans classless after how they treated
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tavares and all those things for him leaving for toronto and i get it cam there's some different
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situations there tavares is from toronto i mean let's marner's from toronto and he left
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toronto to go somewhere else so i think it is funny shoe on the other foot that after what they uh how
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they acted towards islander fans being upset and rightfully so that tavares went and ran up to
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toronto and how auto they're booing in or why are you booing on why i want to see the marner reception
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when he comes to toronto next year uh the one time with vegas i want to see i can't wait to see
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the marner reception because will it be as bad as the tavares reception was in the nassau coliseum
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that night and i was in the building that night it was unbelievable it probably won't be that like
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that but i guarantee you they're gonna boot the hell out of him cam guarantee i'll tell you one
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thing too the media twists this thing they're the ones who say oh he left and he did this but you did
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nothing to help the guy stay either this organization wanted to trade him and such like
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i don't understand the ire of the people and i'm a leaf fan if you treated me like that too maybe i'd
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leave 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
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the taxes are better like it's one of those situations less pressure what isn't there to like
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and they're already a contender
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