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Being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan has been anything but easy in 2024.
The team lost in the first round of the NHL Playoffs (again), saw head coach Sheldon Keefe dismissed, and entered the postseason with more questions than answers.
It has not gotten any better since.
The potential trade of alternate captain Mitch Marner looms overhead, with the Toronto Sun's Terry Koshan reporting that expectations were that any movement that happened with a potential deal would take place in the weeks after the NHL Draft.
"We're heading into that territory on the calendar now, but there has been nothing to lead anyone to believe that a Marner trade actually will happen," he wrote.