Lee Stempniak Signs Two-Year Deal With Phoenix

The Coyotes have finally agreed to terms with forward Lee Stempniak, signing the 28 goal scorer to a two year deal.

“The Phoenix Coyotes have re-signed unrestricted free agent Lee Stempniak to a two-year contract, the Arizona Republic reported on its website late Sunday.

A league source told the newspaper the deal is expected to be officially announced Monday.

The 27-year-old Stempniak joined the Coyotes at the trade deadline last season in a deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 18 regular-season games with Phoenix, the right-winger had 14 goals and four assists. He added two assists in seven playoff games.

Before getting dealt to the Coyotes, Stempniak had 14 goals and 16 assists in 62 games with the Maple Leafs.

A fifth-round draft pick of St. Louis in 2003, Stempniak has recorded 96 goals and 113 assists in 374 career games with the Blues, Maple Leafs and Coyotes.” {THN}

Stempniak was an unbelievable help to a surging Coyotes team – he scored 14 goals over 18 games, flourishing after the trade that took him out of Toronto. It’s a great signing for the ‘Yotes, but Stempniak represents a bit a risk. Which player will show up night in and night out? Will Phoenix see the return of the slightly-better-than-mediocre forward that Toronto and St.Louis loathed, or the dynamic forward that was almost at a goal-a-game pace towards the end of last season?

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