Speculation: Stamkos

[Vasilevskiy]

He will be back. Hopefully for cheap

 

[1865]

One thing I could see is 8-years at $5M AAV with a full MNTC also payable through retirement.

8 years? He's 34!

 

[Hockey Know it all]

One thing I could see is 8-years at $5M AAV with a full MNTC also payable through retirement.

Lmao. For a 34, soon to be 35 year old. He ain’t getting an 8! Year deal lmao.

 

[Cancuks]

They'd have to give him 8 just to bring the AAV down to 5 million a season. Then he ends up on LTIR after 4 or 5 years.

 

[dirtydanglez]

still can't see him going anywhere but tampa.

on the 1% chance he does go somewhere else - colorado, dallas, vegas, nyr

 

[lawrence]

term and cap friendly to retire a lighting.

Or

Detroit makes a hard push for him and he signs with them.

 

[EspenK]

Toronto should sign him and dump Tavares. Stamkos will show them how to win in the playoffs.

Should have shown the Lightning...

 

[Hookslide]

All interested parties can salivate all they want. STAMKOS is a Lightning lifer. The two sides will find some common ground to make it work. As it should be.

End of story.

Sorry my friend there is another chapter...................Bruins

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

Resigns in Tampa
3 years @6.5m

 

[Demon Eyes]

Chicago to be Bernard's winger.

 

[HFpapi]

Who would Tampa even be able to grab to replace his forty goals?

Vatrano from the Ducks could replace 30ish and give the Lightning a ton more cap flexibility to fill out the roster.

That said, I think Stamkos resigns somewhere in the range of 3 years x 6 mil.

 

[Curufinwe]

Some team will offer 6 x $10m if he doesn't extend in TB first

 

[TotalHomer]

Re-signs with Tampa. 5 x 7 million.

 

[beardawg]

This has Barry Trotz all over it if he hits free agency

 

[oconnor9sean]

Dallas will have some money available next season with Pavelski likely retiring and Duchene's deal up.

 

[WingsToPick4th]

3x6.5M with detroit

 

[StreetHawk]

He will be back. Hopefully for cheap

Depends on what he wants at this stage. 34 and coming off a 40 goal year and PPG. But, I noticed his +/- plummeted to -24, when he's mostly been a single digit + player for most of his career. Was a -5 last season.
Places that would pay him the most are the mid level teams which could keep him in the $8 mill range for like 3 years. If he wants to go that route.

 

[RedHawkDown]

Hopefully Yzerman goes for him. I'd prefer him to Kane, if I'm being honest. I think we need a skilled vet that can be a passenger as opposed to needing to be the focal point of offense. Kane was great in Detroit, but I think he actually made the rest of the team a little shittier (from my eye test) as everybody on the ice automatically deferred to him, and he's not good enough for that to be the go-to game plan anymore.

 

[ponder719]

Should have shown the Lightning...

He showed them how, they just couldn't do it.

 

[tmlfan98]

It's always been a bit of an open secret in GTA hockey circles that Stamkos is dead set on being a Bolt for life, but the only other team he would consider playing for if for whatever reason he can't be a Bolt for life is Toronto.

 

[SuperScript29]

term and cap friendly to retire a lighting.

Or

Detroit makes a hard push for him and he signs with them.

If he goes to Detroit, Yzerman better not offer him anything more than 3 years. But odds are he retires with Tampa, so I'm not too concerned.

 

[JTBF81]

He said he wanted to play for 20 seasons I believe, so 4 years in the 6-6.5 range seems about right. He can finish his career in Tampa and then have a position waiting for him if ne wants it.

 

[Sota Popinski]

I think he leaves. TB has no cap space and he was pretty pissed that they never even attempted to sign him last off-season. Best player in franchise history and they gave out extensions to Erik Cernak, Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel before him. Insulting.

 

[JTBF81]

I think he leaves. TB has no cap space and he was pretty pissed that they never even attempted to sign him last off-season. Best player in franchise history and they gave out extensions to Erik Cernak, Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel before him. Insulting.

Tampa currently has almost 12 with the projected cap, and they can get to ~16.5-17.5(and still over 14 likely after factoring in replacements for them) by moving 2-3 smaller contracts. Cap space won't be a major issue in the Stamkos situation unless all he cares about is the bag(unlikely), in which case he wasn't staying anyway.

 

[HawksDub89]

Tampa currently has almost 12 with the projected cap, and they can get to ~16.5-17.5(and still over 14 likely after factoring in replacements for them) by moving 2-3 smaller contracts. Cap space won't be a major issue in the Stamkos situation unless all he cares about is the bag(unlikely), in which case he wasn't staying anyway.

Is this factoring in Hagels raise?