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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Last year he started the season on fire and then in the New Year the entire team became a pile of poo-poo, so I wouldn't put much stock into this season. Also his centreman is Tyler Freaking Bozak. He also has played great in the playoffs whenever he has gotten the chance. Not many players get to 40 anymore. Basically if you are getting 25 goals or more a season you are considered a top-end goal scorer nowadays. And if you guys actually watch a lot of Leaf games it's not just his goal-scoring ability that makes him valuable but also his playmaking ablility, which is often overlooked. He is weak defensively, but a lot of pure goal-scorers are the same.
A lot of unrealisitc trade proposals on here.
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Totally agree about unrealistic trade proposals on here, but that's what can boards do.
Phil Kessel would get $8M for 7 years as a UFA. The reason there's a problem is the flames wouldn't be the ones handing out that contract. He's not the answer for what ails Calgary.
Calgary needs strong possession players and defensively responsible first pass defensemen. That's not what Kessel is. The flames scored plenty of goals this year, but they didn't own the puck enough. Kessel couldn't do it on Toronto and won't here either