Central Division Team Emerge as potential Landing spot for Steven Stamkos

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Tom Banks
March 13, 2024 (8:27 PM)

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This past summer, rumours emerged that Steven Stamkos' time in Tampa Bay may be coming to an end, and with the 2024 off-season approaching, the whispers are growing louder once more.

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Despite being the Captain of the Lightning, Stamkos' time in Tampa Bay could be over soon, and while there's plenty of hockey to be played between now and then, it's a topic that will heat up again this summer.

Now, the pending free agent has officially been linked to the Nashville Predators, according to ESPN's Greg Wyshynski:

"Oh, I heard one the other day that I loved. Nashville. Wouldn't Nashville be great for him?" Wyshynski said.

He went on to say, "Think about where he is. Maybe he's a guy after his time, you know, in the sun, on the jet skis, wants to go play in a super pressure market and get the rub that you'd get when you play in Boston or play in New York or play in Toronto. Or he says, 'I've never wanted that' and goes to another place that has one beat writer like Nashville. I don't know what he wants. I do know they can afford him and I do know that with the maturation with this team, being a playoff team this year, having a good core of young players and a really good coach in Brunette, I think he could do pretty well there as a mentor/guy who can probably score a ton of goals on the wing for them if he wants to."

The Hall of Fame bound Stamkos will likely have his pick of teams this summer as a free agent if Tampa Bay don't want to sign him, and with 1,111 points in 1,065 career games played, he could bring experience, production, leadership and everything else a team could want in a veteran signing.

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