Pens decline

Arizona would take that and run like Usain Bolt on crank. Nobody in the league is currently willing to even give a 3rd for a half-retained Hot Dog Phil.

I’ve heard that from a couple people on here. Do you have the link to that so I can use it when I see these nonsense trades for Kessel? Lol

It's behind a paywall. This is the relevant text...

"Penguins get Phil Kessel (ARI retains 50 percent). Coyotes get Alex Nylander and a 2023 second-round pick. — Shawn O.

Kessel has been rumored in trades pretty much since the season began. He’s putting up reasonable numbers for Arizona but the question is how much of a market will there be for the 34-year-old?

Exec: Penguins say no, almost zero percent chance you get a second-round pick for Phil Kessel. The Coyotes have offered him around for a third-round pick while retaining 50 percent and haven’t gotten a buyer yet."

Yeah no way the pens would give up Nylander now. I think the pens need to keep the prospects they got. Nylander, POJ, and Puustinen definitely have been amazing in WBS this season. Now Poulin and even Legare to a small degree are starting to put it together.

Let me get this right. Someone pays for this total bs?

what kind of idiot would do that?

Even if we totally put aside the fact that Kessel and Sullivan don't get along, at all. And that Malkin was pissed at both of them for constantly being put in the middle of their crap.
We still have the overwhelming evidence that his play got lazy and things weren't working out. It was a good run while it lasted. We all love Phil, but he's not coming back.

That was a from a "Who says no?" column at The Athletic in which Corey Pronman asked NHL execs for their takes on trade suggestions submitted by fans. So the excerpt posted goes: fan trade suggestion first (written by one Shawn O.), Pronman's quick blurb next and finally the NHL exec's comment about it. Pardon me for not laying out the context for the uninitiated.

it doesn't really matter. The fact that they have nothing better on there for paid content.....
I mean honestly, it's not even a reasonable question for anyone who knows anything about that situation.