Kessel Trade Talk has re-emerged
Industry buzz when the Penguins were really floundering a few weeks ago is that if the team misses the playoffs or has an early playoff exit, most likely scenario, Phil Kessel will come out of it as the scapegoat and be traded.
And a growing consensus among NHL executives is that Pittsburgh will not win a Kessel trade whether one happens during this season or next summer.
Pittsburgh tested the trade market for Kessel last May/June, getting varying levels of interest from the likes of the Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers, league sources say.
At the end of the day, none of the four teams took the plunge and all backed out of talks during the week leading into the draft.
Pittsburgh was the aggressive initiator in a some of these talks. The team offered Kessel to Florida for [hide] Nick Bjugstad, something executives have believed could reconvene at some-point, though, indications are Florida decided against going through with the deal because of the $10 million in signing bonuses Kessel is due in the final two years of his contract.
So why is Kessel trade talk now back in the news?
Elliotte Friedman reports the Penguins did test the market again on Kessel, which is consistent with talk among rival clubs that Kessel is likely playing his last season in Pittsburgh, barring the team making a very deep run.
They’re holding off for now…….
“[From Friedman: 8. According to multiple sources, Pittsburgh “tested the market” on Phil Kessel. This one is tricky, because the Penguins appear to have decided to hold off on anything involving him for the time being, but that doesn’t mean it can’t or won’t be revisited. Three weeks ago, the Penguins were last in the Eastern Conference. Tuesday’s win over Colorado put them within two points of the playoffs, and who is betting against them? GM Jim Rutherford’s been searching for ways to upgrade the roster. He’s made two moves — Carl Hagelin to Los Angeles for Tanner Pearson, Daniel Sprong to Anaheim for Marcus Pettersson — but is eyeing more. The Penguins don’t have a ton to trade without seriously altering the team. Kessel has some control of the process with partial no-trade protection. Toronto still pays $1.2 million of his $8-million salary. The winger has 10 goals and 29 points in 26 games, so the production is still there. We’ll see where it goes.]”
Kessel can block trades to 22 teams and has three years left on his contract. [/hide]
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news any news rumors or gossip? wow never seen a season this dead.
Imagine pens miss the playoffs. Just like the government. D would shut down the site for good
Shut down the government
I’d pay to see a debate between Ocasio-Cortez and Sam
Good news boys. Pens won last night
Bad news fleury still has more victories than the entire pens team. 17w to 13w.
P.S npl still suckss
And Montreal.
Montreal is a pathetic team, in a disgusting province.
Didn’t realize Brassard was French Canadian. All makes sense now.
This is gold! Great post!
Letang earning that A.
The way malkin does
I wouldn’t mind seeing Matt Martin retire.
I would rather see JJ retire.
Plays like he’s retired. You mean they don’t have someone else to take his minutes?
Brass unblocks!
boy that Brass@SID4800$$ deal is looking better and better.
Lol
Desmith tried to imitate fleury on that first goal but fail. Bad giveaway by brassard and wtf mattaa was doing
As long as he doesnt try to imitate Playoff Fleury itll be OK.
Nice fuckin PP!
Trump is a criminal. Sad!
Npl is a liar . Sad!
Every politician is a criminal.
Look at France what’s going on even the police taking sides with the people now. Revolution. Is on the way
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Murray practised today and guess who was the most exited about. Scum sully
Fleury has more wins then the entire penguins team this year .
And that fat slob npl suckss even more
DemocRATS. Ruin everything
Hey tbj how did fleury do tonight. Playing back to back games again last time he played back to back games had 2 shutouts in a row. This time one loss one win. The fact team is riding him hard means the guy still has it something you never see scum sully do with fraud Murray because A) he will be too tired to play 2 games in s row and B) most probably have a concussion. Now for Vegas if only subban won games team would be a better position
P.S npl suckss so does the DemocRATS
He sucks. Got beat out by a journeyman backup and a rookie. We’d have 2 more cups if he didn’t defecate his undies (something I’m sure you’re familiar with) repeatedly in the playoffs. That’s how he did.
The fact that they are riding him hard means they have no faith in their back up. This tactic could backfire and burn him out or lead to an injury and then Suban is your starter. MAF is prone to injuries and concussions and it is only early December. If he does get hurt I am sure you will jump off the Vegas bandwagon and find another team to cheer for. BTW, still waiting to hear if you have ever been to Pittsburgh? Third time asking you.
I asked him before and he said he was going to but his friends backed out. As soon as he starts talking about “his friends”, you know there’s no truth to it whatsoever.
Agree but shows the fact they are riding him it’s. Because they have faith in their number 1 goalie not like pens they hide their fraud goalie as much as possible and yes more he plays more he can be target to injury or mentally tired. The way he was with pens most of the time garbage backups like BJ and fleury ends up playing more then gets blame he chocked. What he does is not easy and as I said not many goalies can play year in year out a lot of games. Look at Murray his 10 years… Read more »
BJ got a fair amount of playoff time because Fleury was getting pulled every other game. Because he couldn’t stop anything.
Oilers fans gave an amazing standing ovation to Bob Cole what an amazing announcer 50 years
Steelers get Tomlined again. In two weeks they will be 7-7-1. What a joke. The whole coaching staff needs to go. Hope they bring in some kickers this week. Boswell is a joke. Who gives a kicker a 5 year deal?
Tomlin’s going nowhere. The Libs that own the Steelers don’t have the balls to fire him.
Tomlin knows nothing lol he is basically a used car salesman
He knew enough to sell himself in the interview and that seems to be long enough.
Since D is busy. Heres a nice article on Fox News titled, “Why Trump is Likely to be Indicted”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrew-c-mccarthy-why-trump-is-likely-to-be-indicted-by-manhattan-us-attorney
It’s refreshing to see liberals still crying two years after the fact.
Well…
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Don’t worry. The Dems with screw it up.
Trump cheered at the Army/Navy game. Those people must be the scum of the earth to cheer for him right democrats?
democRATS
Only if they are captured during war, according to Trump.
Can we get some new articles?
Fleury had a nice game.
Magic number was 6 against the worst team in the league
He must’ve missed Murray for one game. He still has to work hard to get to his last place stats in the league 4.09GAA
Sam thinks the guy singing the anthem is cute
Sam, thats a very nice picture of Individual-1 you have there
Trump is a criminal. Shocker.
That’s why protesters in France chanting we want trump as president.
You fat lazy. Democrat.
hahaha no they werent! Only Trump is claiming that BS, and, I dont know if youre aware of this, but, he lies alot. Like, alot alot.
Nobody lies more than any democrats
They even have a channel just to lie 24/7 it’s called CNN. Clinton News Network
Pantsuit nation
Murray injured yet ?
Hornqvist has another concussion.
He must’ve found Murray’s book
R.I.P. playoff Murray 🙁
Curious, why do you hate Murray so much? He must have not signed one of your hockey cards? It’s crazy how much you hate him.
It can be really fun watching Regular Season Fleury play goal. But man, it is just as brutal watching Playoff Fleury.
Wish we can say the same for Murray but chances are pens might miss the playoffs so we won’t see Murray shine. Since there is no fleury to do the half work
Fleury is King of the Easy Half
Yeah I’m sure it is. Fleury on pace for 70 games this year. While fraud Murray probably doesn’t even have 70 games played his all career
He has 122 games played, with an identical save percentage and better winning percentage. Wrong on all levels, chubby.
Was it brutal when he single handedly beat the Bjs and Caps and followed it up with a 1-0 Shutout victory over the Sens Before being wrongfully yanked after one bad period in 17?
Who here work in doughnut store instead of bank?
You guys saw tortz wearing a hoodie last night at the game let’s see if he gets fined . Now Let’s see if scum sully do the same.
He was sick jackass.
You think his the only one that work behind the bench and gets sick .you are sad
If ever you don’t work in donut store and work in a bank. When you are sick go to work in a hoodie. You dumb asss.
He has a dress code his sick he can stay home
Can we get an interpreter and an editor over here please. Thank you!
Typical Stan everytime he gets exposed as dumb tries to attack my English so typical of you and tbj
How was I exposed? The guy had flu like symptoms but still wanted to work. In my book that is someone who earns his paycheck. As usual you use anything and everything to tear down the Penguins as long as it is not Crosby related. Plus you insist everyone who see’s right through your act that we are all named Stan. If you are going to call people dumb at least learn how to form a proper sentence when you say it. BTW, have you ever been to Pittsburgh?
Anybody know what goalie has the most shutouts and most wins this year?
I think he once played for the penguins
Patrick LaLime
Hey we beat an Eastern Conference team. lol
Is Hornqvist hurt again?
He must’ve found Murray’s book
Letang suckss guys
Thumbs up
Hotdog!
Sheahan unblocks.
Wow
Letang unblocks.
Sam sucks.
Tom Wilson out with a concussion. Kind of ironic.
aston reese brings more to the table than reeves. hahahaha!
Sprong scores on his debut with ducks
a goal very reminiscent of the one beau Bennett scored as a rookie against the islanders in the playoffs and i remember saying to myself at that time that that kid is going to be a player…ha…see how that turned out.
Haa don’t let me start about that fraud when people here drooled over him . That clowns medical bills were probably higher than his salary
I think Bennett had a injury book how to fake injury and not show up at work. When he left Pittsburgh he left it in the locker room . And I think that same book that has all the con recipe been found and currently being used by FRAUD Murray
On Sprong!–even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while! Everyone plays extra hard right after they get traded should work out for both teams pens get a big young puck moving defense man….
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/hero-dog-saves-goalie-tragic-soccer-mistake-135359595.html
Penguins next goalie?
of course sprong would
Good for him.
Pens prefer Aston Reese.
johnson multi year contract for 5yr contract, cullen who i personally like but is obviously past his prime, derek grant. he brought in 2 young guys but these 3 are supposed to be 3-4 liners and a top 2-3 or 4 Dman?? the age isnt the issue its the quality, at least in my opinion only.
Remember when Sam went on record shutting his tv off against the oilers in the second period? Good times!
Nice one buddy keep up the lies.
4th yr Sully is starting to look like Bylsma and Rutherford is building another cap strapped Canes’ team with older talent! We need to get younger and who knows maybe Sully has lost the dressing room already? Maybe we need new blood behind the bench, recent history points to when we make a change……………. we make a run and win it!
He traded a 30 year old and a 21 year old for players that are 26 and 22. How is he making them older?
the shocking thing about all this nonsense is that it’s starting to look like rutherford believes in his coach more than the talent that the pens have. if rutherford trades kessel and murray to keep sullivan happy, that is just insane. it’s also completely insane for aston-reese to have the 3rd amount of ice time among the forwards for 2 games now. god bless the kid, but he belongs on the 4th line. if sullivan keeps this up, the pens will miss the playoffs.
I agree he’s getting too much pt, but I’m not sure who you play over him at LW on the third line. Would have been nice to get someone to fill that position with Sprong as opposed to another lh dman.
Sully is trying to get fired. That’s the only way his strategy makes sense.
R.i.P. dynamite kid. Born December 5th. Died on December 5th
yoda, i have to agree with you, Sully is getting more Torts like by the game. Let the skill play and put them in positions to succeed not hinder a team striving for balance. I bet there is more balance if you put kessel where he performs best….with other offensive talent, not 3rd line so he can be the anchor! Surprise, he isnt! Let them play their way out of the funk by experiencing success? Sully is less likely to let the talent be “creative”, he is so concerned with so called balance, in my humble opinion only, i believe… Read more »
Sam, which one of the clowns do you think this moron is?
Ron klatt ?
Forbes released this year’s franchise values dispite penguins have Crosby teams value is $650m. Habs ahl team $1.3billion. Revenue $234m a team that sucksss yet makes more money explain me that tbj bandwagon
Agreed. They do suck.
You said habs fans are bandwagon’s yet team still makes more money than penguins despite pens making playoffs 12 years in a row and 3 cups this year pens struggling and half the board doesn’t show up minute pens don’t make playoffs this team will be like Florida attendance a shitt hole team that has to be moved asap to Quebec
Since Quebec worked out so well before…
What’s it like being a virginal bandwagon boy? Has to be rough. Rooting for a new team every night, scuffing hot dogs in your mom’s basement and trying to learn how to tie your shoes. Even the car you lie about isn’t nice. Can’t blame you for living vicariously through national heroes like Orpik and Kessel.
Enjoy bandwagon man. https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/1670951/forbes-nhl-franchise-values-keep-rising-rangers-leafs-lead-way Make sure npl drools over Florida’s revenue
Even if you find my car ugly I don’t care because I pay with my own money and not rely on government aid like you donut boy
How ironic that 6 of the top 8 teams are original 6 teams. Shocking. You pointing this out for no reason whats so ever just proves how much of a bandwagon fan you are. Oh and by the way do you realize that Pittsburgh’s population total is only around 305,700 while Montreal’s is 1.705 million!! Big fucking difference! You better get more people to a game each night.
It doesn’t matter team has ahl calibre team and missed playoffs several times. And while pens have all Star team. Bandwagon. As I said go watch a full 60 min hockey then we’ll talk I can’t wait pens miss the playoffs. So you, npl and rest of the bandwagon thumbs down crew disappears from this website
So I should make excuse rags have more revenue because the have 15x the population of Montreal.
Why don’t you start with english and then maybe we can move on to economics. Have you ever been to Pittsburgh?
Penguin trade a with sens Eliot and lindberg for erkamps and sexton
They probably got sexton to make Randy sexton happy since he is the father of ben
Now that’s something to excited about in Belleville and WBS
Well the fact pens were suppose to make a trade was ahl caliber players that one happens to be the son of a penguins staff member
But but but chubby had 92 points according to morons here when Sam said he has value trade him
You want to trade everyone with value for bottom 6 grinders. That’s the Montreal way, and you’re a Montreal fan.
Wtv makes you happy everytime I’m right you find ways to make yourself feel good. By having an agenda on me with your crew Anyways try to watch a full 60mins game then we’ll talk
What have you ever been right about? Ever?? You’re a moron that makes up garbage. Kind of like how you bash Kessel and all he does is produce. Malkin would be back in Russia. I could go on and on. Once the Canadians start doing well, you’ll jump off the bandwagon. Wait, what am I thinking? They’ll never do well. They have bandwagon fans and a bunch of grinders, with an overpaid fraud of a goaltender. Hahaha!
Aaand when did we trade him?
No, according to the official NHL stats he had 92 points. Learn English!
sullivan is going full tortorella
Kessel maybe moody and prickly, but the dude is producing.with 29 points in 26 games this season. This following a career year last season 93 points its not him fellas…
maybe the pens would like kessel more if they actually skated him with crosby for a full season. if they did that, kessel would score 50. it’s better though if he skates with brassard and scores 25 because then the lines will have greater balance.
who else saw ryan reeves lay out tom wilson last night? actually who cares about reeves, zac aston reese brings more to an NHL lineup. good thing reeves is gone. hahahaha!
I did and it was a thing of beauty
I loved it! Wilson getting his bell rung was justice for all the people he has cheap shotted! karma he had it coming he is a dick…
Well I saw reaves score more goals than pens 4th line.
I also saw reaves has more even strength goals than malkin this year
trade away skill, bring in more robots. that’s what sullivan says! zach aston reese got more ice than kessel and geno last night. that’s the direction sullivan is going. i can’t believe that rutherford allows that to happen. sullivan should get fired on that alone.
Sullivan seems to have it in for Kessel..tough love!…. how about benching that figure skating, dumb penalty taking, turnover machine, the enigma that is Evgeni Malkin…the most frustrating talent in hockey lazy as shit.
pens can’t trade malkin. he would quit and return to play for magnitogorsk.
Agreed
That con man has the team from their ballz
probably right…..he is talented but……lazy as shit..
Kessel to the Ducks for Sprong!
hes woth a look anyways
why the hell would the penguins trade a ppg player that is getting paid under $7 mil
sullivan wants more robots. look how much time zach aston reese got last night.
Malkin to LA!
Fleury to Calgary!
Come up with new click bait D. Kessel isn’t going anywhere.