After years of run-up, it was going to take a lot to push Steven Stamkos' free-agency decision to the background.
On Thursday, it happened. Twice. That's the way it goes when you have two league-shifting trades go down within 20 minutes of each other.
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The moves that put P.K. Subban on the Predators, Shea Weber on the Canadiens, Taylor Hall on the Devils and, uh, Adam Larsson on the Oilers turned Stamkos into an afterthought in short order.