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The Phil Kessel Situation: When new metrics challenge what we thought we knew

The Penguins are trying to trade Phil Kessel. They’ve made no secret of that. Even going so far as to leak that he that nixed a trade to the Minnesota Wild that would have netted the team Jason Zucker and swapped Jack Johnson’s bad contract for Victor Rask’s bad contract. Kessel can block trades to all but eight NHL teams and he invoked that right in this situation.

The reported trade sparked several different discussions among fans but the most interesting to me was the extreme variance in people’s opinions of Kessel as a player.