Speculation: Your 2016 Lightning offseason predictions
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We let Stamkos walk and we are ok this year. Nash fills Stamkos' goalie scoring. The following year we trade Filpulla and Garrison to free up necessary capspace if we resign Bishop. We aren't straddled with an albatross contract for 4 years with this deal.
LTIR Trickery
Plz stop pucks
Nash is great if we want another underperforming, overpaid forward who does nothing in the playoffs.
Number1RedWingsFan52
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Doubt that Yzerman could afford to give Stamkos $10 million without buying out Carle and without trading both Bishop and Filppula plus give big money to Kucherov and giving big money to Hedman next year.
CupsOverCash
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It's almost impossible for that to be realistic. There's no way to keep Stamkos to begin with let alone keep him and bringing in Nash. I would run these lines if he came in.
Killorn-Johnson-Kucherov
Nash-Namestnikov-Drouin
Palat-Filpulla-Brown
Paquette-Boyle-Richard
Filppula's going to be next to immovable now that he will require protection in the expansion draft. We're probably going to end up having to buy him out, which could mean that Carle hangs around a while longer to avoid putting too much dead money on the books.
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
JFleegs
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He's a UFA a week later, let them draft him all they get is a week to talk to him which we will be being for the next year. He becomes a free agent July 1st and we sign him back.
JFleegs
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What's the risk? If he knows our offer and wants to be here he'll come back. If he wants to be like Stamkos and test the UFA market then it's a nobrainer. There's more reward, protecting another player, than risks, him actually signing with an expansion team.
It's hard to imagine Yzerman letting Hedman get to this point without an extension (which can be agreed to as soon as July 1), which will almost surely have a no-movement clause from the get-go.
Even if he did, snowball's chance in hell Victor Hedman is being exposed for the sake of protecting Andrej Sustr.
We'd also lose the ability to sign him to an eight-year contract. That's a rather significant loss both in terms of our ability to give him a competitive offer and in losing a year of his services. We won't play that game with Hedman.
We can certainly ask them but I'd be shocked if either agreed. For Callahan the NMC we gave him was a major reason for him signing here in the first place, and both will still be receiving plenty of playing time. I can't imagine why either would want to uproot his family and move to the desert to play for an expansion team when they can stay in Tampa playing for a contender.
CupsOverCash
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Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
Stammertime91
TBL: TEAM OF THE CENTURY
Lol. My favorite hose post of the day right here.
Like do you laugh or just close the browser when you type stuff like this?
I agree they sign him this summer or at least before the All Star game and like tjs said the 8th year is important but Yzerman never has given out a deal that long.
If Sustr has another strong year establishing himself as a legit top 4 defender what do we do? He's 4 years younger and might be able to get signed cheaper than Stralman. Stralman will be a UFA in 2 years and will be 31 at the start of the 2018 season. He also sucked this postseason so he needs to have a good regular season for me to consider keeping him.
As I understand it to resign a player for eight years the team a) must have his rights, and b) must have had the player as of the trade deadline the previous season. If the expansion team picks up the rights to an impending UFA then no team will meet both criteria and therefore nobody will be able to sign him for eight years.
