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Lou Lamoriello on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ offseason additions: “I want to reassure everybody that the core is the young players”

Why alter the payment schedule, paying Marleau $8 million, then $6 million, then $4 million?

Lamoriello: It’s always easier if there were ever an opportunity to make a transaction in the latter part of the contract to trade him. It’s less for another team to take on.

Let’s talk a little bit about this deal. Obviously, you went after him. I assume this was not entirely a Lou Lamoriello initiative, and that you had conversations with your cohorts there at MLSE. Was there a consensus that this was a guy that you felt you wanted to get?