TAMPA — It’s crazy, but not that crazy.
Lightning captain Steven Stamkos often finds himself smiling at the commotion that his contract status is causing in his home and native land.
Oh, Canada. Relax.
“You’ve just got to have fun with it,” Stamkos said Tuesday morning, before the Bolts’ preseason opener.
Like last week, when Toronto Maple Leafs radio announcer Joe Bowen, a Stamkos family friend, tweeted a photo of a banner of the Triplets — Johnson, Kucherov, Palat — on an Amalie Arena wall, noting, “No Stamkos on the Lightning advertising. Let the rumours get rolling.