Phil Kessel

Created by: pensfan21

Team: 2023-24 Pittsburgh Penguins

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 3, 2023

Published: Dec. 3, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I would for sure sign him. We desperately need power play help and we don't have an easy way to free up cap. To me this is the best solution. I think he would be an upgrade for our bottom 6.

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kessel, Phil		1	$775,000

Trades

PIT

Hakanpää, Jani

DAL

2024 4th round pick (PIT)

PIT

Monahan, Sean ($750,000 retained)

MTL

O'Connor, Drew
2024 2nd round pick (PIT)
2025 3rd round pick (PIT)

PIT

ANA

Acciari, Noel

Buyouts

Jack Johnson: $916,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Petry: $1,562,500 (25%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$81,364,342	$0	$15,000	$2,135,658

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Guentzel, Jake $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Crosby, Sidney $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NMC UFA - 2	Rust, Bryan $5,125,000$5,125,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 5
Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Malkin, Evgeni $6,100,000$6,100,000 C NMC UFA - 3	Rakell, Rickard $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5
Monahan, Sean $1,235,000$1,235,000 ($15,000$15K) C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Eller, Lars $2,450,000$2,450,000 C UFA - 2	Kessel, Phil $775,000$775,000 RW UFA
Hinostroza, Vinnie $775,000$775,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Zohorna, Radim $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Carter, Jeff $3,125,000$3,125,000 RW, C NMC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 6	Karlsson, Erik $10,000,000$10,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Jarry, Tristan $5,375,000$5,375,000 G M-NTC UFA - 5
Pettersson, Marcus $4,025,175$4,025,175 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Letang, Kris $6,100,000$6,100,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Nedeljkovic, Alex $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Ludvig, John $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 2	Hakanpää, Jani $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
White, Colin $775,000$775,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Koppanen, Joona $775,000$775,000 LW, C UFA - 2

Top Comments

Dec. 3, 2023 at 12:43 p.m.

Mr_Gardoki

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I'd definitely bring Kessel back.

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Dec. 3, 2023 at 12:48 p.m.

Joblow

Joined: Jan. 2022

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Mtl won’t waste their last retention spot for this kind of offer. Some team will offer more with no retention.

Dec. 3, 2023 at 12:48 p.m.

Joblow

Joined: Jan. 2022

Posts: 1,721

Likes: 683

Quoting: Mr_Gardoki

I'd definitely bring Kessel back.

Kessel can’t skate no more.

Dec. 3, 2023 at 12:53 p.m.

draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 9,280

Likes: 2,239

Keep Accairi.

Dec. 3, 2023 at 2:49 p.m.

pensfan21

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 3,632

Likes: 1,271

Quoting: Mr_Gardoki

Your horrible grammar aside, he put up 14G last year and 36 points last season. 12G 5v5. That's a better pace than most of the bottom-six guys are on right now.

Kessel was also a key reason for the great PP this team had because of his passing and ability to enter the zone. Is he the best possible solution? No, but he's an upgrade.

Agree completely. Need to look at in the context of how he compares to our current bottom 6 right now, not how he compares to how he used to play. He really wasn't that bad at all on the Knights last year

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