That's awful value for Kessel

Its kinda funny that Nylander basically saved all his talent for the World Championships because now he's the leading scorer in the championship......has even more points than Kucherov

Fine Pens can be in cap hell. No other team will give a reasonable amount for an overpaid veteran with 3 years left

Maybe because Nylander is actually good

But like he didn't play good in the ploffs or in the regular season

It's kinda hard to play well when fukn Babs puts him with Marleau and Brown lol

He had a bad start and continually got better, still had a better playoff game performance than marner...

TBH you do make a pretty good point. I didn't really factor that in

"Better playoff performance than Marner" hold on a second while I go check their stats for the ploffs

Oh god

Obviously not realistic. I'm just bored

Marner had 4 points 2 pim and Nylander had 3 points 2 pim so I think Marner is a little bit better don't you?

Marner also played a much better defensive game

Agreed. IMO Marner has one of the best defensive game of the forwards

A point per game player at less than 7mil AAV? That's overpaid? Sign me up for that all day long

I find this outrageous. As a bruins fan I was terrified every time Marner touched the puck. When nylander got it I laughed. I think tuukka would fire off a quick text when nylander was busy turning the puck over. I wanted nylander on the ice as much as possible

Probably 29 other teams that would give more.

Marner is scary to other teams, Nylander is scary to the Leafs lol

So your solution is for pittsburgh to trade a ppg winger for another bad defenseman and retain $2 mill? Wow great strategy. So pittsburgh would be paying kessel $2 million and Zaitsev's $4.5 mill with equals to $6.5 mill instead of just paying kessel at $6.8 mill. Great job fixing the cap

He's a Leafs fan...

If the Leafs add three unprotected 1sts Pittsburgh considers. Rutherford also counters with Johnson for Nylander w/$2M retained.

Well you should have been scared in game one... after that he was with Marleau and brown but his numbers were still great. Put mango and kappy on his wings and sparks would fly.

The trade is horrible. I don’t think your return is any more realistic. Kessel is on the wrong side of 30. Perfect time to get rid of him though.

I’m talking about chess and you’re playing checkers.

Possession...points/60

Take away marners penalty shot and the puck mathews knocked in out of the air and things look a bit worse. Marner did play well defensively for sure though. But did not have a lot of jump in his game. Credit Boston for their part in that as well.

He looked uninterested. I question his drive

lmao a PPG player at 6.8 millions is basically a steal