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Sources told ESPN.com the Leafs sent two first-round draft picks and a second-round draft pick to the Bruins for the high-scoring winger. The 21-year-old Kessel, a restricted free agent, signed a five-year, $27 million deal with the Leafs, according to a source.
Well Toronto gets him for 2 1st round picks and a 2nd.
Kessel signs a 5 year $27 million dollar contract.
Sorry to see him go but he did not fit in with the Bruins style or cap.
Source: Boston Bruins trade Phil Kessel to Toronto Maple Leafs for draft picks - ESPN
Well I was hopeful they would get maybe some defensive help for him rather than future picks, but 2 #1s and a 2 is pretty good I have to say. Think they'll turn those around for a player or does their cap situation pretty much necessitate them standing pat?
I don't think we do anything until the trade deadline at the earliest. Charelli will get one of the top defensemen in the 2010 draft ... Cam Fowler will look good in a Bruin uniform.
Toronto picked 7th this year ... with a bit of luck their in the top 5 in 2010.
Glad to see the Bruins following the Patriots model for building a team; trade away a proven star (this kid has loads of upside unlike Seymour) for "potential" stars in the way of draft picks, thus making your team weaker in the here and now.
But hey, make your team weaker this year and weasel out of paying the guy for three young kids who you will draft, bring into your system and just as they hit their stride, dump them too so you don't have to pay them.
Brilliant..............
Hi, I am not an NHL fan, and I don't follow the Bruins closely, but I have a question. In any other sport, - baseball, basketball etc. - a player that was a star at the tender age of 21 would typically have considerable upside, likely to improve for four or five more years with the distinct chance to be the best player in the league by the time they were 25 or 27. A list of MLB players that were stars at 21 is a list of Hall Of Famers. How can it be a good idea for the Bruins to let someone like this go?
kind of wondering if you know what you are talking about. Kessel was not going to play for the Bruins, plain and simple. so either get two #1s and a #2 or have the player sign an offer sheet that we CANT match and he walks with zero in return. The Bruins did a great job with this one.
Yeah, your a right, I don't know what I'm talking about. Only been a fan since 1968, patiently waiting since 1972 for another cup.
Read what TimU said as for a guy who isn't a hockey fan, he nailed it; they dumped a 21 year old with a ton of upside for "future potential". HE HAS future potential. You don't know what draft picks will pan out to; could be stars, could be flops.
When you have a player like that, you get proactive and sign him before it gets to a no turning back situation.
This "lunch pail, load the team up with muckers and grinders" act of theirs has not worked for the past 37 years.
They did a great job.................letting a star walk away for draft picks that aren't going to help them in 2009.
If they lose a sh!tload of 2-1, 3-2 games, we'll hear "man oh man, why can't this team get a guy who can put the puck in the net"............
So another potential HOF'er who doesn't live up to the Bruins' system?
This is the magic system that's taken them 37 years since their last cup? The system that led to the team trading an MVP in the middle of his MVP season?
Seems to me that the system is supposed to adapt to the talent you have, not the other way around. Sort of like how the Pats are playing 4-3 on Defense right now.
That's if the system is about winning games. If the system is about keeping money in Jeremy's pocket, I guess its doing just fine. The team's not quite the joke it was 5 or 6 years ago when dismal attendance led to them replacing every other seat back in the Garden to make it look like people still showed up.
God can't that guy die already?