Steven Stamkos now and in the future: net positive, net negative, or roughly somewhere in the middle?

[Viqsi]

I think he’s a net negative, not somewhere in the middle. That option is too hyperbolic, if you’re looking for a credible poll.

Credible? HF?

 

[sr edler]

Problem with Stamkos this season is that Nashville's played him as if he's Stamkos from 10 years ago. Sometimes, nostalgia and name-recognition is a helluva drug.

If a loaded team used him as a designated PP-sniper, I guess he could still be a fairly deadly weapon (?).

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Problem with Stamkos this season is that Nashville's played him as if he's Stamkos from 10 years ago. Sometimes, nostalgia and name-recognition is a helluva drug.

If a loaded team used him as a designated PP-sniper, I guess he could still be a fairly deadly weapon (?).

Yeah, you need the "loaded team" caveat.... he's ok as a PP-sniper for Nashville, although his 25-28 goals aren't really going to be "deadly", since he has no Kucherov feeding him in order for him to get any more than that. But the first sentence is bang-on.