Stamkos may not be completely happy in Tampa.
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On Monday, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that one of the big issues may not be term or money, but position. Stamkos wants to play center and guaranteeing that on Tampa’s end could create a problem. Stamkos prefers to play centre, which creates a top-six logjam with Valtteri Filppula and triplet Tyler Johnson. It sounds like the Lightning would prefer Stamkos to play on the wing to ease that issue. From what I’ve been told, the discussions were professional, but both organization and player remain searching for common ground.
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Which also means he'd want to play centre here not RW as some suggest. Monahan would need to step down a line too. I wouldn't have any problem with that and it goes without saying that negotiations with Stamkos' agent would be done before any trade is done.
http://thehockeywriters.com/report-s...o-play-center/