Episode 45: Steven Stamkos leaves Tampa Bay in free agency.

It was an eventful week for Tampa Bay sports. We start with the team still playing games the Rays, where they won their 4th series in a row! We break down the good play the Rays continue to show. Then we move on to a little game where we try to figure out which Tampa Sports player or coach would celebrate the 4th of July. Then we move on to the elephant in the room, the Lightning. How will the moves they make affect the team next year? How will Steven Stamkos leaving affect the Lightning as an organization? We talk about all of this and more!
Rays win series vs. Nationals: 00:00
Rays week preview: 27:10
Are they celebrating the 4th of July?: 37:09
Stanley Cup thoughts: 53:01
Lightnings Saturday trades and draft thoughts: 58:44
Lightning free agency review: 01:04:53
Steven Stamkos leaves for the Predators: 01:06:42
#raysup #lightning #mlb #nhl #stevenstamkos #freeagency #tampa #tampabay

[@colbyallfrey2589]

Stammer we’re gonna miss you :(

[@saltyypringlezzyt6908]

Guy on the right must not watch alot of hockey because Stamkos definitely should’ve been a Bolt till the end ESPECIALLY considering there was room in cap space and I’m sure just like the last 3 contracts he signed he would’ve taken the hometown discount like the guy on the left said. Stamkos was 1000% the identity of the TBL and even through his absence I think millions of fans that think Tampa Bay Lightning will think to themselves Steven Stamkos, and definitely will not think Andrei Vasilevskiy, he was the face of not only the Lightning but all of Tampa Bay Sports no one else outside of MAYBE Ronde Barber is even close to being the face of Tampa compared to Stamkos. JBB handled it like it was a rookie asking for 10 million a year when it was a 16 year bolts player asking for what I assume would be around 5-7 million from the Lightning. He may be old but he still was 3rd in Goals and Points on the team and the ENTIRE Powerplay system was built around him which is why Stamkos and the Lightning were so successful for all those years when it came to the powerplay. Absolutely a huge blow to the Lightning and as far as JBB goes it’s practically inexcusable especially after the fact that he turned around and started comparing the situation to others that didn’t work out in his press conference on Monday.