It’s a very good question that I’m familiar with as a Pens fan. But if you can sign Stammer, give him a legit star winger, and have two very dangerous lines, I don’t think it’s a terrible line of thinking.
Confirmed with Link: [TBL/CAR] Lightning trade 2025 3rd for Jake Guentzel
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Gurglesons
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You guys are going to love Guentzel.
Antiramie
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The amount of people here overvaluing draft picks after the 1st round is too damn high. We essentially gave up a 1st, 3rd, and 5th for Jeannot...the latter two picks being peanuts...in hopes that we could get a 20+ goal scorer who was physical as hell. It didn't work out. Oh well. But you have to take some risks. And the more successful teams as of late are built through FA/trades...not the draft.
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I imagine he knows something he doesn't want to happen, such as another GM willing to offer way more that knocks us out of the running. Doesn't seem like Brisebois is taking the chance again of missing a player he wants. That's a pretty common trend with him given the prices paid, Hanifin debacle excluded.
Also, he seems very confined to a plan.
- Doesn't resign Stamkos all year
- Brings back McD during playoffs
- Trades Serg
- Trades Jeannot
- Still not resigning Stamkos
- Verge of adding a top line winger
Seems like he was waiting this season out before saying "enough is enough" and getting it together. I'd still like to see Stamkos signed. Our top 6 would be a f***ing nightmare.
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It isn’t just the Jeannot trade it’s how he has treated Stamkos as well.
He offered me a 2nd round draft pick from my beer fridge to show up today as his next big find .lolJBB don’t care about wasting a pick at all lol
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I still don't see the point of Guentzel signing early at all. Like he knows he is going to get paid huge. Why not just wait the 24 hours?
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Point21
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I would give Sheary away for some bubblegum at this point.
Todd1a
Kucherov or prospect
Cirell would be the easy one he has value and doesn’t have trade protection until 2025-2026 season
These Are The Days
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That has more to do with wanting to win. He has gone through hell and back with Pittsburgh after winning the Cup his rookie year and the Canes probably had their last gasp. He doesn't want to play on a rebuilding team
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These Are The Days
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We've had Jake for like 10 minutes. Shut the f*** up Kypreos
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Gimme a break. The guy is a professional athlete who has had 16 years of steady employment and $100M+ career earnings on a team that produced 2 Cups (one basically without him) and ran into cap issues that are somewhat inevitable when you're at the top. It's JBB's job to ice a competitive team, not give out handouts. You can't just write Stammer a blank check purely bc of loyalty when you have a handful of other roster spots to fill in the off-season.
JBB did what he had to do to reload for next season, and, if that meant having to tell Stammer he had to wait on his contract to see how everything played out, so be it.
I would love to see Stammer back, but this is a business, and JBB knows damn well that more fans value winning and losing than "doing the right" thing...despite the virtue signaling.
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This perfectly illustrates why we’re doing this. We need to be a better team 5v5, Stamkos/Sergachev for Guentzel/McDonagh accomplishes that.
These Are The Days
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I'll believe it when Stamkos unfollows the Lightning on all his social media. It's the first sign the breakup is real and that goes for almost all athletes
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ccman68
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sheary has ntc so we should buy him out. cirelli can be traded if we retain a bit. i don’t see anyone wanting an injury prone player like cernak
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Can it be that Stamkos only wants to re-sign if the Lightning re-arm significantly. He may want to make sure he gets a shot at the Cup in this last contract.
It will be 7x$9.25 million AAV or higher at a minimum if he signs with Tampa. This will be Guentzel's last big contract and the Canes offered 8x$8 which was Guentzel's original ask.
So he is going to want to maximize the value. Would not be shocked if he gets 7 x $9.5 or even $10. When you are the top free agent and you get to market, you usually get a little overpaid.
So he is going to want to maximize the value. Would not be shocked if he gets 7 x $9.5 or even $10. When you are the top free agent and you get to market, you usually get a little overpaid.
