Stamkos is cooked

[Rschmitz]

One thing that should definitely be mentioned is that with his lack of speed he was pushed off center, he used to get a ton of goals from the center of the ice and around the net, but those opportunities are not there anymore on the wing.

 

[VaporTrail]

Good organizations know when to move on from players.. good job TB

 

[ItWasJustified]

Good organizations know when to move on from players.. good job TB

Well, the Lightning offered him 8 years x $3 million and Stamkos declined. So it wasn't exactly the Lightning who moved on from Stamkos as it was Stamkos who moved on from the Lightning.

Unless you're in a camp that believes that the Lightning knew 100% that Stamkos wasn't going to take that offer because it was ''insulting'' and offered it to make him go to free agency.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

That just more like feels pushing the same problem into the future instead of dealing with it in the presence

They gave Guentzel a 7 year deal and we are on year 1

Well yea that was the entire point. To give this core a few more years to compete. By year 5 of that deal Hedman and Kucherov will be old anyway.