Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Interval joined Steve Kouleas and Carter Hutton on the Sirius XM NHL Community Energy Play Section when requested about Steven Stamkos and when discussions will begin with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Steve Kouleas: “Dave Pagnotta Sirius XM Insider. Now we’re in the midst of Could. We now have lengthy weekends, then we get to June, and foolish season, I assume, formally begins and heats up on June the primary. Quiet in sure locations.
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That doesn’t imply a Steve Stamkos can’t be re-signed and sure gamers pending UFAs don’t let loose the little chatter about the place they may find yourself sooner or later. What’s your intestine say about Steve Stamkos? And when the yr ended, they mainly stated they haven’t talked. When are they going to speak?”
Dave Pagnotta: “I believe the time is now. Actually time to get issues going and have a correct dialogue and identical related circumstances right here from a training facet of issues. You wish to map out your recreation plan. And the place does all people fall? We’re does Stamkos fall inside the long-term plan of the Tampa Bay Lightning, not simply, you already know, clearly the following couple of seasons? The place does he match financially?
The place does Victor Hedman match financially with that, with that membership as nicely? He’s bought one other yr left on his contract and he’s any individual that Julien BriseBois needs to deal with to have a correct understanding of what the longer term would seem like for him in Tampa financially.
So clearly a couple of totally different balls within the air however from Steven Stamkos perspective, now there have been discussions, unfastened discussions with the group in his camp, however now it’s time to get to a extra critical state and I believe that may choose up within the not too distant future to at the least get all people going.
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Okay, to begin with, let’s all decompress after what they felt was a was a shortened season for them. And let’s all come again to the desk and get an excellent understanding of the place all people’s at. The place the {dollars} make sense. And the way will we meet in a cheerful place? And I believe Tampa want to have a fairly good concept on that in and across the starting of June.
Such as you stated, that’s sort of when issues begin to choose up for the remainder of the group. You get to some extent the place you’re lower than a month from the draft, the commerce discussions, begin to choose up. The inquiries, the calls, all of that stuff actually intensifies round that point. So from Tampa’s perspective, you wish to get an excellent really feel as to the place you’re together with your captain at that time.”
