Steven Stamkos hopes he hasn't played his last game for the Lightning.

The two-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner as the NHL's top goal scorer can become an unrestricted free agent July 1; however, he reiterated Friday that he'd like to stay with the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2008.

"I certainly hope to be back. We obviously have unfinished business here," Stamkos said a day after Tampa Bay's loss to the Penguins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.

"This group has been unbelievable, the city has been unbelievable for me," he added. "I can't believe it's been eight years already. Time flies."