Tampa Bay get a right-handed winger challenge.

Odds are we might offer him what Dallas did in a Pavelski-like deal, 3Yx7M. Once his new deal is up at 37, we revaluate his health, performance, and where both parties stand.

Additional cap space can be freed up by moving Sheary to a team not on his M-NTC (makes room for Groshev or Goncalves at the NHL level on whatever deal they have) and ship out Perbix (he's truly a replacement level D, moving him to develop Thompson as a top-4 RD instead at a young age seems like the smarter move)

100% agree, thanks for your opinion. I’m hoping we get Stamkos to resign

Nothing against Stamkos....he's still a fine player, but the "faltering" Tampa team just might have move on from him if the money is too much, and Stamkos wants a change.
I wonder if a team with cap next season like the Wings or Nylander less Leafs would offer him about 7m X 3 years.

Tampa can afford 7M. Also "a fine player" is pretty crazy to say. He's having a pretty bad season eye test wise and he still has 24 points in the first 21.3 games. He has fallen off 5v5 wise, but he instantly makes any power play basically deadly if there is someone good on the other side because teams have to watch him so closely and there is so much extra space

Thanks for your insight. Appreciate your eyesight comment.

$8 million x 5 years, full NMC
Heavily front-loaded in first 3 years

(Signed at age 34…so no 35+ penalties)

actually its JBB that doesnt want to offer stamkos a contract not the other way around for some reason. Stamkos said he wanted to retire as a bolt