The Toronto Maple Leafs made their trade of Mitch Marner official on Tuesday morning.

After more than a year of speculation about the star player's future, the player signed a seven-year extension worth $12 million per season with the Vegas team. The team announced that the player will wear his favorite No. 93, in their official announcement of the deal.

VIVA MITCH MARNER 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Aq9Wp87cjA

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) July 1, 2025

Marner wore No. 93 during his time in Junior with the London Knights and the number is still associated with his social media handles despite the fact that he wore No. 16 with the Maple Leafs. The number was a dual tribute. The first being for his favorite player growing up, former Maple Leafs captain Doug Gilmour, and it was also the birth year for his older brother.

The No. 93 in Toronto is currently retired in Gilmour's honor. 

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Marner leaves Toronto as the club's fifth-leading point-getter of all time with 221 goals and 520 assists in 657 games. Had he stayed in Toronto, there was a good chance that his No. 16 could be retired someday. Now, his exit is being compared similar to that of Vince Carter with the Toronto Raptors when he requested to be moved.

In the end, time healed all wounds and Carter's number was eventually retired. Perhaps after some time, the same will happen for No. 16.  But we'll see. Marner's first game back in Toronto next season will certainly be a must-see for a lot of reasons.

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After losing Ryan Poehling in the Trevor Zegras trade, the Philadelphia Flyers need another reliable two-way center.

While Zegras may very well end up converting back to center full-time, he's not the guy the Flyers want playing high-pressure defensive minutes, and especially not on the penalty kill.

There are a quite a few interesting veteran options for that archetype of player on the NHL free agent market this year, but the Flyers, just like at the goalie position, will face hot competition from Stanley Cup contenders.

Names like Radek Faksa, Nick Bjugstad, and Nico Sturm would be fantastic stopgap options, but with a little extra searching, the Flyers can find themselves a more permanent replacement in Joe Veleno.

Veleno, 25, is a former first-round pick who is set to be bought out by the Seattle Kraken after being traded by the Chicago Blackhawks for Andre Burakovsky last week.

Veleno was, of course, already traded once this season, with the Detroit Red Wings bringing in Petr Mrazek and Craig Smith and sending Veleno to Chicago.

All in all, the 2024-25 season was a tougher go for the former 30th overall pick, although Veleno's five points in 16 games with Chicago was markedly better than the 10 points he had in 56 games with the Red Wings.

Coming into the year, Veleno was fresh off a career-high 28 points with the Red Wings, emerging as a strong penalty killer and a physical presence.

Veleno's GAR card above is similar to Poehling's before he joined the Flyers; Veleno's is more well-rounded, while Poehling was in the 80th percentile of defense due to some elite penalty kill play.

If the Flyers are in on Veleno, they'll get some intel from defenseman Jamie Drysdale, who won the 2019-20 IIHF U20 Men's World Championships with Veleno and Canada a few years back.

Going back another year, Veleno played with Flyers forward Owen Tippett and former Flyers center Morgan Frost on the 2018-19 U20 Canada team.

The 25-year-old is having a two-year, $4.55 million contract cut short with the buyout, so it's unlikely Veleno will cost the Flyers much more than something in the range of $1 million. 

The 6-foot-1, 200-pound forward has thrown over 100 hits in each full season of his NHL career and is a respectable 46.6% for his career in the faceoff dot.

The combination of size, potential, physicality, and versatility should be attractive to a smaller Flyers team, and Veleno is much more seasoned than Rodrigo Abols, for example.

He should be one of their top targets heading into the start of NHL free agency Tuesday.

Flyers, in need of goalie help, agree to terms with Vladar on 2-year deal originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

The Flyers had to address the goaltending position this offseason.

They did that Tuesday in the form of Dan Vladar. The club and the 27-year-old agreed to terms on a two-year, $6.7 million contract. The deal has an average annual value of $3.35 million.

Vladar is expected to form a tandem with Samuel Ersson, who has one more year left on his contract. Ivan Fedotov and Aleksei Kolosov also have one more year to go on their respective deals and will compete for playing time.

At 6-foot-5, 209 pounds, Vladar comes to the Flyers after spending the last four seasons with the Flames. He’s coming off a career-high 30 appearances (29 starts) in which he went 12-11-6 with a 2.80 goals-against average and an .898 save percentage.

His best season came in 2021-22, when he went 13-6-2 with a 2.75 goals-against average, .906 save percentage and two shutouts. Time will tell if Vladar is the short-term answer to helping the Flyers stabilize in net.

Last season, the Flyers had an .872 save percentage, the worst in the NHL. The season before that, they were tied with the Senators for the league’s worst mark at .884. It has arguably been the Flyers’ most costly flaw since Carter Hart left the team in January 2024 because of the Hockey Canada sexual assault case.

On Day 1 of NHL free agency, the Flyers also added center Christian Dvorak and defensemen Noah Juulsen and Dennis Gilbert.