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Tampa declines. While in a vacuum, the value is more than fair, Tampa will keep Colton while they'd 100% lose Severson after the season. Tampa isn't at an all in point by any means, so a deal like that doesn't make much sense for them. With the emergence of Perbix on the right side, Tampa has a solid top 4 with Hedman, Serg, Cernak, Perbix, and Cole is also rotated in. Tampa will have all of those dmen aside from maybe Cole moving ahead, and the F core is still very much a contender with Point, Kuch, Stamkos, Cirelli, Colton, Hagel, Paul, and Maroon moving into next year. Tampa will need to find 2 or 3 cheaper signings to fill out the 3rd and/or 4th lines, or promote a Syracuse guy or two, but they are far from being out of contention after this season. Vasilevskiy will also still be there. Most of Tampa's main core will still be in their 20's outside of Stamkos and Hedman, who are still only early 30's. Their contention window isn't closed after this season.