{"id":1834,"date":"2025-07-02T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mitch-marner-on-maple-leafs-exit-leaving-isnt-easy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:00:36","slug":"mitch-marner-on-maple-leafs-exit-leaving-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mitch-marner-on-maple-leafs-exit-leaving-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Marner on Maple Leafs exit: &#8216;Leaving isn&#8217;t easy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Mitch Marner issued an emotional farewell to Toronto on Tuesday, the same day his hometown Maple Leafs officially confirmed he had been traded to the Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Leaving isn&rsquo;t easy. This city is where I grew up, where I fell in love with hockey, and where I&rsquo;ve had the incredible honour of living out my childhood dream,&rdquo; he wrote in an Instagram post. &ldquo;Wearing the Maple Leaf on my chest wasn&rsquo;t just about playing for a team, it was about representing my home.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs acquired forward Nicolas Roy in exchange for Marner, who signed an eight-year, $96 million contract with Toronto as part of the trade before heading to Vegas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Mitch Marner on Maple Leafs exit: &lsquo;Leaving isn&rsquo;t easy&rsquo;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Marner issued an emotional farewell to Toronto on Tuesday, the same day his hometown Maple Leafs officially confirmed he had been traded to the Vegas Golden Knights. &ldquo;Leaving isn&rsquo;t easy. This city is where I grew up, where I fell in love with hockey, and where I&rsquo;ve had the incredible honour of living out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/mitch-marner-on-maple-leafs-exit-leaving-isnt-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mitch Marner on Maple Leafs exit: &#8216;Leaving isn&#8217;t easy&#8217;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}