No way Stamkos signs with the Habs. He's cup chasing and Habs are no where close.

Or just keep Markstrom, lose Vladar to waivers and have Markstrom mentor Wolf.

Calgary has absolutely no interest in washed up Jake Allen.

Sign Toffoli instead, Stamkos is unrealistic at least Toffoli has a history with MTL and is still good friends with players on the team.

Toffoli scores just as many goals as Stamkos now, not as much of a playmaker but that's OK.

Not to mention his wife is still very vocal on social media on how she'd like to return to MTL. Of all the veteran upcoming UFAs, Toffoli might be the most realistic to sign with MTL. Him and Monahan if he doesn't do well in WIN.
From the other perspective, not sure how much appetite Hughes will have bringing in top 6 forwards that'll take away from the youth coming up (Beck, Mesar, Roy, etc.). My guess is he'll go after those guys only if he can move out players like Armia, Anderson, Dvorak, and/or even Gallagher (highly unlikely).

Re his wife, I was not aware of that. I think he'd be such a great fit as a veteran, he's a good two way player too. Imagine if they traded Anderson instead when he had value and kept Toffoli years ago.

To be clear, she's never explicitly said "I want my husband to re-sign in MTL". It's more the fact that she's from MTL, both her and Toffoli talked about her wanting to "go home" was an impact when Toffoli initially signed in MTL in 2020. and every post she's put up when Toffoli was back in MTL (either with CGY of NJ) was about how she missed being back home.
So in no way does that mean Toffoli is coming back to MTL because of his wife. But I think it's fair that if Kent Hughes calls his agent on free agent frenzy, regardless of MTLs contending "situation", he'll at the very least keep them in mind.