TB Lightning GM has major change of heart on Steven Stamkos

I don't have anything to announce right now or don't expect to have anything in the short term. With the cap constraints being more & more challenging to navigate, it makes it harder & harder to get deals done early on, but we obviously think tremendously of both players & hope that both will be with us beyond next season and we have plenty of time to get them signed before they become, in Stammer's case, an unrestricted free agent, and in Brandon's case, a restricted free agent with arbitration rights, next summer.

To be honest I've been disappointed in the lack of talk in that regard. So it was something that I expressed at the end of last year that I wanted to get something done before training camp.

I'm ready whenever so I guess that was something that that I didn't see see coming but it is what it is.

Like I stated at the end of last year, too. I would love to extend and play here and finish up my career here but that's out of my hands. I can't write a contract for myself.