KESSEL TO PIT FOR HARRINGTON, KAPANEN, AND A PICK

[Craig]

Everything i e ever heard about iessel is that hes shy and quiet. His mom is the dbag.

[meow]

No concerns about kessel being a dbag?

I have none. That Toronto media is off their rocker.

[iamjs]

http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?N ... &id=465589

[PFiDC]

Got a text saying that TOR is picking up the 4mil bonus this year so his cap hit is 4.75 this year. Any truth to that?

[meow]

The bonus does not change the cap hit in this instance.

[mikey]

Got a text saying that TOR is picking up the 4mil bonus this year so his cap hit is 4.75 this year. Any truth to that?

Toronto paid his bonus on July 1st at noon, AIUI. However, the cap hit is not editable in that sense. They retained X dollars and that's that. Cap hit won't change year to year based on who is picking up the check.

They may have saved us some real dollars, but the cap hit is [Original cap hit] - [salary/cap retention by Toronto] = Our cap hit.

[PFiDC]

Thanks. It didn't sound right to me but my hockey "knowledge" begins and ends with the on ice product for the most part.

[mikey]

No worries, pfidc.

This is better off here:

Yes, we have Kessel for 5 more seasons at $6.75 or $6.8 million per.

Total goals since (and including) 2010-11:
1. Alexander Ovechkin 206
2. Steven Stamkos 202
3. Corey Perry 178
t-4. Phil Kessel 151
t-4. Rick Nash 151
6. John Tavares 150
7. Jarome Iginla 148
8. Joe Pavelski 145
9. Jonathan Toews 140
t-10. Jeff Carter 138
t-10. Max Pacioretty 138
...
14. James Neal 133
...
19. Evgeni Malkin 125

[Rocco]

Does this mean Amanda Kessel will be in the crowd on a regular basis?

[shmenguin]

Rutherford defending kessel's roundness...

I do think guys that are in too good of shape are vulnerable to get injured

...someone spin this in a way that doesn't perpetuate the legend of Crazy Old Uncle Jimmy. Is there science behind this? Serious question.

[Craig]

No worries, pfidc.

This is better off here:

Yes, we have Kessel for 5 more seasons at $6.75 or $6.8 million per.

Total goals since (and including) 2010-11:
1. Alexander Ovechkin 206
2. Steven Stamkos 202
3. Corey Perry 178
t-4. Phil Kessel 151
t-4. Rick Nash 151
6. John Tavares 150
7. Jarome Iginla 148
8. Joe Pavelski 145
9. Jonathan Toews 140
t-10. Jeff Carter 138
t-10. Max Pacioretty 138
...
14. James Neal 133
...
19. Evgeni Malkin 125

Dude, wtf? Im already not thrilled with this and you put something up that says hes tied with rick nash.

[FreeCandy44]

Woo....us fat guys got a new dude to cheer for!

[MR25]

Rutherford defending kessel's roundness...

I do think guys that are in too good of shape are vulnerable to get injured

...someone spin this in a way that doesn't perpetuate the legend of Crazy Old Uncle Jimmy. Is there science behind this? Serious question.

It was probably a joke.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

The more I think about it, the more I love this trade. The big losses are Kap and the first rounder, but Toronto will be terrible again so the second round pick we get back won't be much worse than the first and Kap's ceiling isn't Kessel's.

Would've liked more salary retention but that's fine...

[Kicksave]

Source of the post the second round pick we get back won't be much worse than the first

We're getting our own 2nd rounder back that we gave up for Winnik.

[Rocco]

With Kunitz's untimely passing last year the Pens only had one competent scoring winger. Now they have two. This should work.

[spiritfan]

welcome to the country club Phil... what line would you like to play on? would you like some Kessel Krunch cereal our marketing team is selling to the sheep at Consol? how bout we strap a gopro on your head for a day and see what it's like to be you? cam we give you a nickname to put on a tshirt to sell? how does Chubs sound?

[spiritfan]

With Kunitz's untimely passing last year the Pens only had one competent scoring winger. Now they have two. This should work.

Kunitz died?

[joopen]

With Kunitz's untimely passing last year the Pens only had one competent scoring winger. Now they have two. This should work.

Kunitz died?

Metaphorically on the ice in terms of his ability to play hockey... Yes. Didnt think that one was going to need explained so thoroughly.

[cadams]

Still kind of shocked we got Kessel and didn't give up Pouliot.

[dodint]

With Kunitz's untimely passing last year the Pens only had one competent scoring winger. Now they have two. This should work.

Kunitz died?

Metaphorically on the ice in terms of his ability to play hockey... Yes. Didnt think that one was going to need explained so thoroughly.

I laughed out loud. Perfect delivery.

[meow]

Source of the post the second round pick we get back won't be much worse than the first

We're getting our own 2nd rounder back that we gave up for Winnik.

So we can offer sheet someone. Aww yiss

[Rocco]

With Kunitz's untimely passing last year the Pens only had one competent scoring winger. Now they have two. This should work.

Kunitz died?

The Ghost of Chris Kunitz got ice time on the PP and next to Crosby mostly because there were no other options. Now there's another option. Who knows, maybe Beau Bennett will put it all toHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry.

[Avyran]

More insight to the trade from DK:

Maatta was never discussed. Not for a second. Not with Toronto. Not with anyone. That’s what Rutherford told me after his press conference today, and I believe him completely.

“Olli, my God, no,” Rutherford said. “I honestly don’t even think of him as one of our young defensemen. He’s so advanced. He’s on our top pair with Kris Letang. No, no, no.”

To clarify, then, because all kinds of nonsense got floated leading up to the opening of free agency at noon, Maatta was neither offered nor sought by the Leafs, who were never given the opportunity to ask.

...

Scott Harrington, the defense prospect sent to Toronto along with Kasperi Kapanen, ranked no higher than fourth on the Penguins’ internal list for young defensemen, behind Maatta, Pouliot and Brian Dumoulin. It used to be the other way around between Harrington and Dumoulin, but I began hearing early last season that Dumoulin had stepped up — partly because of his being two years older and more mature, but also because of skating — and that was supported in the playoff series with the Rangers, when Dumoulin was used and Harrington scratched.

...

The Penguins, specifically Johnston and Rick Tocchet and pretty much all their predecessors, have scratched their heads forever about how to solve a man-advantage situation in which, no matter how they aligned their stars, the opposing penalty-killers would never take the left side seriously.

Well, not now. And not just because of Kessel’s aforementioned ability to one-time. It’s actually much more about his uncanny ability, perhaps better than anyone since Jaromir Jagr’s prime, to step off the boards, dart into the slot and create his own offense.

[meow]

The pp is balanced. It's...it's weird