Sam Hitchcock: How Stamkos Leads the Lightning Going Forward

Sam

I am glad the Bolts have a featured writer on this website but everytime i read your blogs it brings me back to my TA days in college grading research papers and homework where students were clearly using a complex word into the paper to hopefully impress when a standard commonly used word would suffice.

As for Stamkos he doesnt need to prove anything, 25-30 goals with 40-50 assists along with improving his two way play his contract is a steal.

He doesn't

Stamkos isn't a leader. He comes up small when his team needs him most. Steven Chokos....

Yeah, Stamkos has to prove he's versatile or he's going to fade away. Like Spiderman in avengers 4...

Stamkos will be just fine. He never was the best center in the league (or top 3 even) and he never will be. But, even in his current state, he is a legit 1C and power-play specialist. Where he needs to continue improving is with faceoffs.