Comments on: Other teams could make Tampa Bay miserable if Steven Stamkos reaches restricted free agency

By: svallen

svallen — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:37:31 +0000

Stamkos is going to get a huge deal wherever he goes – that is a given. What isn’t a given is who will be the team to “up the anty” on the Lightning. Some teams are in some desperate need of a goal scorer and play maker like Stamkos – I think come July 1 things could get interesting.

My question: who goes first: Zach Parise or Steven Stamkos? Both RFA and both highly sought after.

Found both of there current contract information here: Stamkos (http://www.spotrac.com/nhl/tampa-bay-lightning/steven-stamkos/) and Parise (http://www.spotrac.com/nhl/new-jersey-devils/zach-parise/)

By: maplebar

maplebar — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:29:36 +0000

Some GM might be rash enough to try take on a 12 million cap hit, but it wouldn’t be smart. Yes, even if you assume the cap is only ever going to go up and up at the very same rate (ha).

For that money, you can sign a Toews AND a Keith. You need your players to outperform their contracts so the rest of the team has balance.

By: atwatercrushesokoye

atwatercrushesokoye — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:05:18 +0000

The Devils are gonna regret ever giving Kovalchuk that monster contract! Because of that contract they’ll have to decide whether to keep their true rising superstar (Parise) and have to fill the rest of the team with bargains or whether to let their real superstar go and trying to build around a guy that lacks that true it quality, Kovalchuk is basically Pavel Bure 2.0, a great goal scorer and a guy who will win you a few games in the regular season, but not a guy that will lead you to the Stanley Cup.

As far as Stamkos goes, I think any team in the NHL would be falling all over themselves to get him. I would never offer any player a double digit year contract though, too much room for career derailing injuries ala Rick Dipietro. Give Stamkos a 7 or 8 year contract offer and hope he signs it.

By: sknut

sknut — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:26:03 +0000

I would think teams wouldn’t mind giving up 4 picks since they feel Stamkos would bring them to the promsie land and those picks would be low but still a hundred million plus 4 1st rd picks is a lot. Which teams right now would be able to take that on right now?

By: sharksfan754

sharksfan754 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:39:54 +0000

I’m thinking around 8.5-9.0/ year for about 5-6 years and he’ll go for the BIG MONEY in 5-6 years