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What everyone really wants to say to the offseason.

Defensemen Matt Smaby's agent and Lightning GM Brian Lawton are on the same page with contract negotiations - but no deal is imminent. Smaby faces an arbitration hearing next week if a new contract is not signed before then.

I don't know how far and wide this has carried since I saw it first mentioned in a St. Petersburg Tiems article last week, but Vincent Lecavalier wants to stay in Tampa. That isn't news (though...