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

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Is Stamkos as an asset a net positive, net negative, or somewhere in the middle?

  • Net positive asset; he'll be a key contributor for a while yet

    Votes: 8 9.3%

  • Net negative asset; he's a liability and an anchor and must be dumped ASAP

    Votes: 33 38.4%

  • Somewhere in the middle; maybe a bit overpaid but not a real anchor

    Votes: 43 50.0%

  • Don't know, don't care

    Votes: 2 2.3%
  • Total voters
    86
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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 (?).
 
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sr edler said:
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 (?).
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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.
 
The cap rising should help. He may not be a superstar but he's a true pro and will do everything he can to play at a high level for the remainder of this deal. Bit of a rough first season in Nashville but that's such a massive change to deal with, I don't think it's a complete shock to see him struggle a bit. Too proud of a player to fall off the map imo, unless the body fails. He has bounced back from adversity so many times where it looked like he might be done. Not saying it's a good cap hit but he deserves at least a full season and maybe a portion of the next before calling him a net negative.
 
Trotz gave him 4x8, I have a hard time believing another team was anywhere close to that term and caphit.

He’s on pace for a 25/25/-25 season. For 8 million bucks
 
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