02-07-2025
Mitch Marner on joining Vegas Golden Knights: 'You want to be in a place where you want to win'
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'Obviously, the winning regimen they've put up through the last five years, really since they've been in the league,' Marner said during his introductory news conference Tuesday.
'The living arrangements from talking to (Max) Pacioretty and Reavo (Ryan Reaves) just through the last couple weeks, it seemed like everything was a pretty good fit for my wife and I and our new son.
'And you know, the great players they have here. It's where we wanted to be.'
Of course, a US$96 million contract for a maximum of eight years didn't hurt, either.
Both Marner and Vegas general manager Kelly McCrimmon said it was important to get the deal done before July 1, when Marner would have been eligible to go anywhere else and would have been the most sought-after player beginning at noon EDT.
'This was a spot that was very high on my list,' said Marner, with his wife Stephanie and three-month-old son Miles in the front row, along with his parents, Paul and Bonnie. 'We wanted to come here and went back to my agent and said I'm open to doing this if we can find a way to do it. A couple hours later Kelly called me and said we got a deal going on.
