Confirmed with Link: Phil Kessel traded - Part III

[Pi]

I will have little to zero interest to watch this team if Phaneuf returns with the C. They identified the wrong problem.

Babcock has worked magic with average D before. Phaneuf doesn't have the baggage Kessel has. He just needs support like Kronwall got with Dekeyser/Smith and Green now.

Keeping Phaneuf this year makes a hell of a lot more sense. This guy wants to prove he can be the guy to lead us through the rebuild.

I've got zero problems with Phaneuf for the next 3-4 years. He just shouldn't be our best D 2 years from now though.

 

[Highlander23]

Still amazing how Nonis and Burke have managed to dodge so much blame

Their the ones who built this treadmill of a team and locked up this below average core long-term

Agree, the media need to stress that hardly. Maybe we get another burke interview where he says that he would do that draft again

 

[WilliamNylander]

Predictions:

Kessel scores 45 goals next year. Crosby over 100 points again. Crosby and Kessel hover around 60% GF and are absolutely dominant.

 

[mikebel111*]

Dubas said the goal isn't to win the trade today


He also said we didn't get the return worthy of Phil's calibre but trades today very rarely do



can people shut up now? He admitted we didn't get full value but its all about the future

 

[91Stammer*]

It looks like we need a scorched earth rebuild in management. Kessel for 2nds and Kapanen with boom/more bust chance..

 

[Nithoniniel]

people keep missing that.
knowing our luck though, they are gonna miss the playoffs two years in a row.

In that case the 1st turn to a 2nd and we don't give them a second. I think value-wise, that's pretty much all the same actually.

It's ok. The conditions don't really matter.

 

[Bomber0104]

I will have little to zero interest to watch this team if Phaneuf returns with the C. They identified the wrong problem.

Other than the Kessel trade, that's the best news I've heard all day.

 

[namttebih]

I'm not pissed a the return, per se. I'm a little pissed about the conditions of the picks. I'm also pissed that we couldn't work out a dump opposed to retention. I'm in the camp that thought that he would get a similar return to what he actually ended up getting. With retention I thought that he would land a little more.

 

[yubbers]

Dubas said the goal isn't to win the trade today


He also said we didn't get the return worthy of Phil's calibre but trades today very rarely do



can people shut up now? He admitted we didn't get full value but its all about the future

Hahahaha

Well if he admitted his dumb ass play....

 

[Pi]

Predictions:

Kessel scores 45 goals next year. Crosby over 100 points again. Crosby and Kessel hover around 60% GF and are absolutely dominant.

Prediction: Pens are first round fodder again because they have so many rookie D's and injuries (as always).

 

[mikebel111*]

Other than the Kessel trade, that's the best news I've heard all day.

very rarely I agree with you, but this is right

we don't need people who value one player over the future of this team

 

[hockeywiz542]

Toronto Maple Leafs assistant GM Kyle Dubas says he's very happy about the three players Toronto acquired in return for Phil Kessel as well as the picks they keep stockpiling.

http://www.tsn.ca/video/dubas-no-kapanen-no-deal-1.323233

 

[Highlander23]

Predictions:

Kessel scores 45 goals next year. Crosby over 100 points again. Crosby and Kessel hover around 60% GF and are absolutely dominant.

who cares ? he is pretty much dead to me !! I'm a leafs fan, not player X or Y fan

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

Dubas said the goal isn't to win the trade today


He also said we didn't get the return worthy of Phil's calibre but trades today very rarely do



can people shut up now? He admitted we didn't get full value but its all about the future

guess Rutherford won the game of chicken.

 

[Crispy Crust]

Predictions:

Kessel scores 45 goals next year. Crosby over 100 points again. Crosby and Kessel hover around 60% GF and are absolutely dominant.

In any event, it's going to be absolutely magical watching Kessel with either Crosby or Malkin.

 

[Smif]

Pretty happy with this today. For me, it wasn't about the return.

 

[Daisy Jane]

I'm not pissed a the return, per se. I'm a little pissed about the conditions of the picks. I'm also pissed that we couldn't work out a dump opposed to retention. I'm in the camp that thought that he would get a similar return to what he actually ended up getting. With retention I thought that he would land a little more.

it's easy

all the players that would be included in a dump - did not want to come to Toronto.

 

[Bomber0104]

very rarely I agree with you, but this is right

we don't need people who value one player over the future of this team

Start agreeing with me more often.

You'll be better for it.

 

[Trapper]

So where do people see us next year?
Arizona/Toronto?
How much better did Edmonton/Buffalo get?
Boston got worse but probably in 9-10-11 spot.
Who makes the East top 8?

 

[Dugath]

If Kessel's contract was 5 years at 5 to 6 Million the return for trading him would have been through the roof.

Bottom line is contract was too long and for too much money.
Other teams could not fit him under the cap or had concerns about the length. Then there was the NTC which limited what the Leafs could do.

The return considering all that was good.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Predictions:

Kessel scores 45 goals next year. Crosby over 100 points again. Crosby and Kessel hover around 60% GF and are absolutely dominant.

Prediction:

You keep your over-reacting agenda up until early October.

Come 2016 you're behind the trade.

By next summer you act like you loved trade trade today.

 

[Daisy Jane]

Dubas: many times management comes up to the podium and promise change, and nothing happens. It's obvious that our management wants change to happen and we're committed. It's not about Phil. it's about how things here weren't working period, and we're changing things.

 

[Bomber0104]

Prediction:

You keep your over-reacting agenda up until early October.

Come 2016 you're behind the trade.

By next summer you act like you loved trade trade today.

Not much of a gutty prediction, to be honest.

 

[WilliamNylander]

So where do people see us next year?
Arizona/Toronto?
How much better did Edmonton/Buffalo get?
Boston got worse but probably in 9-10-11 spot.
Who makes the East top 8?

Bottom 5 with an outside shot at bottom 3.

Really depends on if Phaneuf is moved too.

 

[Sonny21]

@JoeStarkey1
Gary Roberts tells me he'll be working with Kessel starting this month. I'm thinking that's a pretty good guy to work out with.