Calling it Now: Tampa is a Serious Threat Again, Nashville has Screwed Themselves, and These facts are not Unrelated

Armourboy

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Must have been an ownership directive. Trotz is way too smart for this mish mash of a lineup.
I mean tbh we don't know what's coming from ownership, they have always been pretty hands off. However, they are in the process of changing controlling owners, I don't think Haslam actually gets that title til next season though. If he does things how they have always done them then no, this didn't come from the owners, but if he is willing to start spending money out of his own pocket as the controlling owner then its possible.

Honestly I think it was just a case of Trotz looking at a roster that he thought was going to be too good to ever be bad and get a good pick, so rather than just sitting on all of that empty cap he decided to burn it and basically have most of the Vets age out at roughly the same time.

So basically take a stab at it for a couple of years and then in another couple of years the roster more or less all unloads at once and away you go with a new core.
 

Brookbank

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And the Flames shut out the Preds.

Would Stamkos consider mutual termination of his contract and just go back to Tampa for 3.5 million per ?

Maybe New York would take him at 50% retained. They love a good vanity hire

He must not be having any fun right now
 
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Bringer of Jollity

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And the Flames shut out the Preds.

Would Stamkos consider mutual termination of his contract and just go back to Tampa for 3.5 million per ?

Maybe New York would take him at 50% retained. They love a good vanity hire

He must not be having any fun right now
He is the worst player on the ice for a team dressing Michael McCarron, Cole Smith, Jeremy Lauzon, Luke Schenn, Marc Del Gaizo, Scott Wedgewood, and the worst stretch of play from Colton Sissons we've ever witnessed.

Factoring contract, hype, and ice time, quite likely the worst Preds acquisition I can remember.
 

The Panther

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I can't think of a recent-ish case of Tampa overholding onto a declining player. It must be a strong part of their success over the last decade.
Yes, I think you're right. Tampa benefits, of course, from being... well, 'Tampa' (low-pressure location to play in, low taxes, great weather) so it's always going to be easier to attract free-agents and sign them to reasonable deals than in Winnipeg, but even so they seem to do a really good job of developing (not rushing) their drafted prospects, keeping the right ones and playing them, and then not signing them to absurdly long-term contracts -- and thus, they can get rid of depreciating assets more easily than otherwise.

It's impressive that they've done this with some high-pedigree players, too.
 

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