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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The prase; "Open for business" needs to be removed from NHL GM vocabularies. How do you say that and then come away after trading only Blake Comeau? I wonder if the team really wants to re-sign Stempniak as one would think he would have been fairly sought after given his contract status and play this season.
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He's got another year on his deal at a good rate - so he could fit in nicely next year. Given teams apparent reluctance to add cap for next season he may in fact have more value next deadline.
He also seems to play well with young players and could be a good guy to keep around for what will probably be a rough year next season.
I actually see lots of good reasons for keeping him for next year.