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Originally Posted by GioforPM
When Stamkos signed his contract TB was the opposite of a top team - they missed the POs the season after he signed. Maybe he was prescient But they were still thinking Drouin was a future star.
And of course, when Landeskog signed, the Avs were in a similar position as the Flames. Fresh off a second round exit. And it was clear money was the issue for Landeskog anyway.
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You're off by a year on Stamkos - they missed the playoffs in year 1 of his deal.
Stamkos
- TBL was coming off G7ECF and G6 SCF in the 2 previous years
- Florida tax advantage (which is generally overblown, but it's not nothing)
- he had the benefit of the courting period - so he could formally satisfy his curiousity without risking year 8
Landeskog
- COL clearly on the cusp of breaking through: 4 straight PO's; out in G7 G7 G6 of the 2nd rd previous 3 years (CGY's best season in JG's tenure doesn't match any of those)
- The expansion draft may have also created a bit of uncertainty and delayed negotiations a bit (losing Donskoi and his 3.9 AAV probably made it more possible to keep him than if they lost a cheaper D or something).
- Makar, MacKinnon, and Rantanen had clearly surpassed him in importance to the team and he probably took a pretty big discount to stay. The Kuemper trader happened the next day, so it seems COL had a lot of balls in the air - they may have wanted to keep flexibility to resolve their goalie issues
- Sweden is far away from anywhere in NA
There aren't really (m)any similarities with Johnny's situation...it could still happen, but this seems much closer to the NYI (Tavares) and CBJ (Panarin+Bob) situations where the teams tried hard to keep the players...