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Originally Posted by neo45
Kessel is good, but to be a winning team with 15 million committed to Kessel and Phaneuf you REALLY can't afford to have any dead weight on the roster. Which of course Toronto does. Tons of dead weight and most of their good contracts are for short term
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Yeah, but none of that falls on Kessel's shoulders.
He's an elite offensive player in this league. That gets you paid, and rightfully so. You have to have other good pieces in place to win though - and yeah, any team committing 7M to a poor 1st pairing/good 2nd pairing d-man and 5M+ to a 4th line winger is going to have cap problems.