Stamkos is Cooked
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BallardEra
Leafs&Caps Since 1982™
While I don't disagree about Kucherov, Stamkos put up the most points of his career in a season where Kuch missed pretty much half of it. Tampa's system is nuts and allows crazy talented dudes to flourish.
BallardEra
Leafs&Caps Since 1982™
Agreed. I hope no one's taking it as me disparaging anything or anyone, I'm just really in awe of Tampa's program.
BallardEra
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CokenoPepsi
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Statistically, those extra $15m don’t make a generational difference at all.
The immediately preceding generation squanders that wealth and are most likely to not build on it at all
Poor little rich kids: Most kids from wealthy families squander their inheritance
NEW YORK - When Stephen Lovell used to visit his grandparents as a kid, it was like entering the world of Cole Porter or "The Great Gatsby."torontosun.com
Interesting, well he could set up a second family for a bit
Stamkos is not cooked.
He is just what you can expect from a player with so much mileage (17 seasons and a lot of playoff games) and serious injuries which already slowed him down and everyone knows it.
Combining it with the fact that he is playing for a bad team and not having Kucherov as playmaker his numbers absolutly make sense. Everything else would have been surprising. He was not known as playdriver, he is still known for his shot.
A lot of good or great players are already retired after 17 seasons.
Only very few play 20 seasons and can keep up like Crosby and Ovechkin
This will be for sure his last contract.
He is just what you can expect from a player with so much mileage (17 seasons and a lot of playoff games) and serious injuries which already slowed him down and everyone knows it.
Combining it with the fact that he is playing for a bad team and not having Kucherov as playmaker his numbers absolutly make sense. Everything else would have been surprising. He was not known as playdriver, he is still known for his shot.
A lot of good or great players are already retired after 17 seasons.
Only very few play 20 seasons and can keep up like Crosby and Ovechkin
This will be for sure his last contract.
Stamkos last year: 81 points in 79 games
Stamkos this year: 46 points in 76 games
He's cooked. Nothing to be ashamed about, as you pointed out it happens to everyone not named Crosby or Ovechkin. Don't need to beat around the bush though
New team, new team mates. Worse team....
I don't think he is much worse than last year.
I even think he will bounce back to 55 to 60 points next year and steadily decline the last two years of his contract.
We will see.
A guy that sees a significant drop off in production when they are not longer playing in the most favorable environment possible is the definition of cooked.
