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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
He's not a 90 point forward, he just had 90 points for the first time in his career, and probably for the last time in his career too. He's 30. Saying someone is a 90 point forward when he's done it only once in an 11 year career is misleading and inaccurate.
Not only that, but if the guy wants to really limit where Pittsburgh can trade him, he can. An 8 team list of acceptable trade destinations can be shaved down to 1 or 2 teams easily if he puts the right teams on the list. That's what he did to TO when they wanted to trade him, and they were forced to retain salary on him and still basically returned only the equivalent of two late 1st rounds picks as a result. (Kapanen was a late 1st the year prior, plus Pitts 2016 1st which was guaranteed to be a late one as well).
After saying all that though, I would take Phil Kessel for 4 more years without question. I just wouldn't give up the farm for him, or any of our young core players.
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That's the problem, Calgary is already out of the running. Can't spare the draft picks and young players that such a trade would require. I can't even imagine a 1st+Fox would get it done. Nice to imagine though, he would be a great fit on a second scoring line that he anchors, and he would be a boon on the PP.
It's going to be very interesting to see how Treliving patches up the holes in the roster with a the current lack of expendable assets in the organization. It's basically Bennett, Brodie, Stone and one of the big 4 D prospects as bait, which isn't all that sexy from the other team's POV. Hamilton could be traded, but I'm not as convinced of his extraordinary trade value as some are. I think you'd be robbing Peter to pay Paul if you traded Hamilton, whereas Brodie and Bennett can be replaced via UFA/trade/internally based on what they've done the last two years, granted both have potential to be better.