Just the other day, TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reported that the Buffalo Sabres were absolutely going all-in on pending UFA Steven Stamkos.
While that was not the least bit surprising, what was eye-popping was the number that Dreger floated out there while he was on the air with Montreal’s TSN690: namely, that the Sabres would be willing to pay at least $12 million per season for Stamkos’ services.
To be fair, Dreger admitted that he was reluctant to discuss numbers, and went out of his way to point out that hockey insiders try very hard to distinguish fact from fiction.