Stamkos stays in Tampa [8 years, $8.5mil AAV]

[CarltonTheBear]

Regarding Tampa's cap situation, the following players have 2 years left on their deals: Carle ($5.5mil AAV), Filppula ($5mil AAV), and Garrison ($4.6mil AAV). I think Filppula and Garrison are definitely movable at those rates. Carle's contract is pretty bad, but a year from now maybe they can entice a team to take it.

 

[herman]

Joe Smith ‏@TBTimes_JSmith  2 minutes ago
Can confirm Steven Stamkos staying with #tblightning. @TSNBobMcKenzie had it first

Tampa Bay beat reporter. Sorry guys.

Bob beat their beat reporter (who was probably distracted by all the radio and tv call-ins he had to do this week) to the scoop on his turf. No shame in getting one-upped by a Hall of Famer.

 

[KW Sluggo]

Suddenly $8.5M is good enough - what is this a One Day Sale at the Bay? - when it was NFG for the last year?

Some things are hard to explain, as they are finding out today in Montreal and Edmonton.

 

[Tigger]

Well, that settles that. This felt like the most likely outcome for me until a few weeks ago, so, no huge surprise.

Certainly in where he signed, the AAV is a little surprising.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Now offer sheet Kucherov?

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Its been an hour and NO official word????!!!!

Saving word of the sign and trade for Canada Day, obviously.

 

[cabber24]

Stamkos's deal with TB is expected to come in at eight years, with an AAV of $8.5M.
? Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) June 29, 2016

Sweetheart deal.

Man, Yzerman doesn't blink eh?

First Drouin. Now Stamkos. Yzerman is made of ice.

Gave the shaft to St.Louis when GM of Team Canada. He's a winner.

 

[ZBBM]

I guess it'll be worthwhile remembering how this turned out when it comes time for the rumors of Matthews going home to PHX.

 

[TBLeafer]

Okay, now we can look to Tavares in two years. 

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[cabber24]

First Nash, now Stamkos. How dare they resign and not come to Toronto. Start the Tavares thread now, I am sure we can get it up to 1,000 pages.

 

[cabber24]

Okay, now we can look to Tavares in two years. 

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BARFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, it's a hack right, sign and trade still coming....

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I guess it'll be worthwhile remembering how this turned out when it comes time for the rumors of Matthews going home to PHX.

To what? Play for their arena football team?

 

[ZBBM]

I guess it'll be worthwhile remembering how this turned out when it comes time for the rumors of Matthews going home to PHX.

To what? Play for their arena football team?

Well done, sir.

 

[cabber24]

Finish dead last and draft high... the plan continues.

 

[TBLeafer]

Its still the Shanaplan not the Stammerplan after all.

Best alternative outcome to him being a Leaf, was him staying put all along.

Why'd he wait so long to go back and sign his original offer?

 

[pmrules]

It's pretty obvious to me that Stamkos at least wanted to hear what the Leafs had to say.  He likely wasn't impressed with the numbers being discussed, and maybe position played into it as well (in years 2 onwards we need you to be a winger etc), and he decided to stay in Tampa.  He probably told Tampa  to hold on until this time back when the original offer was given. 

If this is the case, this is prudent Leaf management, telling Stamkos if you are going to come, you are going to come on our terms, not yours.

I think Stamkos is cursing the Leafs winning the lottery, which in my mind changed the course of action for the Leafs...as it should have.

 

[Kin]

There really has to be something else to the story. Why wouldn't he have signed this a year ago?

Maybe his UFA offers weren't what he thought they might be?

I guess, but I certainly would have put good money on at least 4 teams willing to spend 10+.

Sure, but there's still big difference between choosing 10.5 over 8.5 and choosing 12 or 13 over 8.5

 

[bustaheims]

Sure, but there's still big difference between choosing 10.5 over 8.5 and choosing 12 or 13 over 8.5

Especially once the tax implications come into play.

 

[ZBBM]

Sure, but there's still big difference between choosing 10.5 over 8.5 and choosing 12 or 13 over 8.5

Especially once the tax implications come into play.

And the arid endorsement landscape in mid-Florida.  8)

 

[LuncheonMeat]

It's pretty obvious to me that Stamkos at least wanted to hear what the Leafs had to say.  He likely wasn't impressed with the numbers being discussed, and maybe position played into it as well (in years 2 onwards we need you to be a winger etc), and he decided to stay in Tampa.  He probably told Tampa  to hold on until this time back when the original offer was given. 

If this is the case, this is prudent Leaf management, telling Stamkos if you are going to come, you are going to come on our terms, not yours.

I think Stamkos is cursing the Leafs winning the lottery, which in my mind changed the course of action for the Leafs...as it should have.

That was my first thought after the lottery as well. But then I heard one of the usual suspects - McKenzie? Dreger? - mention that the Leafs winning the lottery would likely make Toronto a more attractive destination for Stamkos. And I actually think that makes more sense if he's interested playing for a competitive team.