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2024 NHL Free Agency - Reaction to Steven Stamkos Signing with the Nashville Predators
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Jul 4, 2024
Host Matthew Zator gets together with Jacob Billington and Mike Fink to react to the opening day of NHL Free Agency. In this clip, they react to Steven Stamkos signing with the Nashville Predators.
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Jacob, I'll start with you
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Were you surprised that Samco signed in Nashville of all places than the others
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We'll talk more about them because they did a lot on day one. Yeah, I've seen a lot of jersey swaps with Samco swearing in the Predators
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jerseys and it just looks so wrong to not see him in a Tampa jersey. So I was surprised he went anywhere
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Like at this point, I wasn't surprised that he left Tampa. I'm just surprised that he signed somewhere else
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And it just feels so wrong. I think it's a great fit, especially if he's going to be on the wing, play on the
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second line, probably with Mercer. So if they want to keep their top line together from last year
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So I'm not surprised. I think it's a great fit. Uh, the contract, I think it's a perfect deal, maybe a little bit high on the AAV
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but it's really hard to complain with Samco four years and $8 million
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Yeah, great. I mean, the number is actually really good for a lot of teams that probably
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would put that for sure for Samco, even though he is 34 years old, but
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he scored 40 goals last season. So it's not like he's slowing down
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Uh, Mike, what did you think about the Samco going to Nashville? Yeah, I think, I mean, of course there's the context of what the predators did
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and all the moves they made, which I guess we'll dive more into, which probably
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if you take Samco in a vacuum, you're like, I don't know, the AAV is high
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I, I like the Samco sign. I thought any team that signed Samco was going to get more
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value off the ice than on it. Because when you look at Samco, obviously his production's still, I mean
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he's still producing at a high level and he's still putting up great numbers
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and just playing great on, in the offensive zone and overall he's playing great
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But the thing that I was really impressed with last year with the Lightning is he's one of those players that, especially in those dog days
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early in the season, when you could tell Lightning weren't doing well and they
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weren't going to make, and it looked like they weren't gonna make the playoffs at times, and you have those guys at like Samco, really those like locker room
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presence players that just show up every day and know, hey, it's a long season. We're going to be there eventually
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But those guys, cliche Levi example, he's one of those guys that even if the
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predators don't get that same production, which I mean, they don't have Kucherov
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So I mean, he's not gonna, he's not going to get the same sort of scoring chance, the same opportunities he has
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I mean, the predators have some skill, but still it's, it's that showing up
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every day, like being that veteran for young players that they know what it
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takes to, he knows what it takes to make it through the regular season, through
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that grind and then the playoffs. So that's, that's also part of the value
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The AAV is not so much, but yeah, I still like this. Even at 33, I'm like, give him the four years
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Yeah, that's fine
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