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Originally Posted by blankall
The Lightning are in a bit of an unusual spot. They have a franchise vet, who likely wants a great payout, but they are also a highly competitive team. Usually, the team winds down with the franchise vet, and the team costs out a few more seasons, rewarding the now past his prime vet.
It wasn't really the Stamkos era that got the Lightning their cups either. He only played 1 game in their first cup run.
The Lightning need to make a tough choice. If Stamkos wants to stay around, i has to be at a discount and not at a retirement rate.
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It will certainly not be a long term deal. Medium at best. But he's going to want a number starting with 9, I bet. He's not in the Thornton time of his career yet. 34 goals and 84 points last year. However, he's a generation away from most of the other core guys - Point, Kucherov, Vasilevsky, Hagel and Segachev. Really only Hedman is close in age.