Speculation: Stamkos Ask from Toronto was 14M AAV
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HisNoodliness
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So this gives us three plausible options:
Firstly and my personal opinion: this is BS and the Leafs are trying to save face after pushing "Stamkos coming home" so hard.
2) this is true and Stammer was only using the Leafs as a bargaining tool to try and drive up Tampa's/other's price which didn't end up working so he just signed his contract.
Finally: he genuinely thought he deserved that much but no one would give it to him so he figured 8.5 and a good shot at a cup is better than 11 and suffering for eternity.
Firstly and my personal opinion: this is BS and the Leafs are trying to save face after pushing "Stamkos coming home" so hard.
2) this is true and Stammer was only using the Leafs as a bargaining tool to try and drive up Tampa's/other's price which didn't end up working so he just signed his contract.
Finally: he genuinely thought he deserved that much but no one would give it to him so he figured 8.5 and a good shot at a cup is better than 11 and suffering for eternity.
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100% in agreement with this. Just a ridiculous number that I place no faith in at all and just media spin.
No idea how credible this tweet is, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit. It's as if some people like to forget that hockey is a business and players (along with the NHLPA) look to get paid the most.
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who said he was? but he got the info from somewhere and it seems like this number came from the leafs camp. Stamkos has no reason to put that number out there
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What damage? The interest level dropped a ton when the Leafs won the draft lottery. It would have been gravy to get Stamkos, but nobody here is crying about him staying in Tampa.
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Seems like it's a good thing they passed up on him? Quite the difference in contract from what he signed
Glad you stayed home in Tampa Steven, you're drunk.
Vipers31
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His agent probably has somewhat of an idea how much more. It's not like his name isn't already highly sought after for endorsements. It's a tough thing to speculate on from the outside.
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Except according to the OP, 14 million was the "ask" from Stamkos' camp...not the "offer" from TO.
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Sounds kinda like Nick Kypreos kind of stuff, eh....let's throw a number out there, and get people talking about it..............again!!
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Since Stamkos resigned, the TO media hasn't mentioned him, why would TO need to release anything? Nobody around here is asking why we didn't get him...Hell, most of us are happy we didn't.
Which he has every right to do, so what's the problem again? That he's not playing in Toronto for 5 mil a season?
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Pure gold.
12 months of "we're getting Stamkos" followed by a Summer of " Most us are happy he didn't sign". Never change, T-Dot.
Number1RedWingsFan52
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Seems like it's a good thing they passed up on him? Quite the difference in contract from what he signed
So Stamkos supposedly wanted $5.5 million more to play in his hometown of Toronto then what he accepted from Tampa to play on a cup winning team. Sounds logical.
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I'll remember this next time someone says that Winnipeg has to overpay to lure in UFA's
I thought Edmonton was the one that had to overpay to lure UFA's
Number1RedWingsFan52
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Tampa definitely got one, Considering what Stamkos could've gotten on the open market.
Number1RedWingsFan52
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Totally agree with this, Stamkos was going to sign with Tampa all along. He was only seeing what the interest was. But for a chance to win the cup right now his only option was staying in Tampa.
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