Every team in the NHL would love to have Mitch Marner.

Not every team can afford the Toronto Maple Leafs' two-way superstar free agent, though.

He's expected to command something like $13-14 million per year, a new record for a winger.

The biggest suspense aside from his team destination will be the term length of the contract. Marner could seek a shorter deal, as small as two years, to get another payday when the salary cap has gone up even more in a couple seasons.

About that team, though. Strong links to Vegas and Anaheim have persisted, but The Daily Faceoff's Mark Larkin thinks differently.

Larkin writes that Marner will end up with the Los Angeles Kings.

"The Kings were close to a Stanley Cup contender this season," Larkin writes. "They were deep, they were defensively elite, and they got stellar goaltending from Darcy Kuemper. But despite driving the play at both ends, they finished 14^th in goals and 27^th in power-play efficiency. Marner isn’t a sniper, but he’s an elite facilitator; only four forwards averaged more primary assists per 60 on the power play this past season. No King has scored 100 points since Wayne Gretzky in 1993-94; Marner could fill their superstar void and forge a new long-term forward core alongside Quinton Byfield and Adrian Kempe as future Hall of Famer Anze Kopitar inches closer to this end of his career. Los Angeles would also provide Marner a refuge from the crushing pressure of Toronto while also not feeling like too small of a market. You’d get the big city excitement and a reasonable amount of anonymity."

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It's remarkable that the Kings haven't had a 100-point scorer since Gretzky in 1993-94. That's more than 30 years.

Maybe that'll be Marner's task, although he's not just a scorer. Marner is a true two-way player.

His defensive abilities are so respected that when Toronto lost a defenseman to an injury in a game earlier this season, Marner skated shifts as a D-man to help out the Leafs.

Toronto hasn't been thought as much of a possibility to re-sign Marner, so now the ball is in his court, and he'll soon have to make a choice of where he wants his hockey career to continue. Maybe the answer could be Los Angeles for the Kings.

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