If I need to add let me know. Will add chek and 3rd as potential assets

You probably have to add. Kessel didn't have the greatest offensive season but no one in Arizona has managed to put up great offensive numbers

Kessel will block any trade. I'm pretty sure on that.

Decent team

If Jones and/or Dell can get better than we could probably make the playoffs via a wildcard spot.

yep and he honestly if there is a CBO i would not be surprised if he is one of the candidates

He only has a M-NTC. I doubt San Jose would be on that list.

Edit: Never mind he has a full. I still think he would be open

How much?

I like this offense a lot. I’m good with the defense especially if rutta can be a good in his own zone d-man. Goaltending, if we get nabby back I feel good. Since bob took over our numbers have been average, which would be fine with offense and defense in front of it. If we had a better cap I would consider Allen or Murray but we have no money for either

Offense is fine, wouldn't say I like it a lot. Defense is solid.

Yeah, hopefully Nabokov helping Jones mixed with Boughner's defensive prowess will be able to get our goaltending good again, or at least average.

Kessel is not a player the sharks should go after at all, he has 2 years left on his deal and is an ineffective player who has to have offense spoon fed to him to keep going. Not to mention he is probably the worst defensive player in the league.

As his dentist, I can confirm that Phil Kessel does, in fact, have a retainer.

And whatever you're suggesting is 100% against my recommendations.

We have had this guy Patrick Marleau. He isn’t particularly good at defense. How long has he been the league?

Quite a bit different scale.

Not really. Both are/were elite wingers, that were born to play offense and don’t really care about defense.

Can I ask how the scale is different?

These charts represent a heavily modified Corsi Metric that I made to evaluate players, it is the normal corsi of a player with respect to the quality of chances, the score for the rest of the team, where the player takes face offs from (its a lot). Basically this stat will determine if a player is effective combined both ways, if a player has a chances against value that is higher than the value calculated of chances for, then they are below 50 (bad), the metric will also factor in where the player most often takes faceoffs, if they start in the Defensive zone more, their Corsi values are affected accordingly.

as you can see, Patrick Marleau has long kept up a very efficient career, when he is on the ice, the team gains a net positive impact, this has been the case for most of his career (not enough data available before 08-09).

Meanwhile over in Kessel-ville, despite the fact that he scores a ton (which the algorithm considers), he gives up so many chances and is overwhelmingly starting in the offensive zone, that his net impact on the team, is negative, meaning, the team is doing BETTER when he is not on the ice, this has been the case since even before he was traded to Pittsburgh. this is a result of him having some of the biggest oZS% in the league, over 60% the past 5 years. with the CA value adjusted based on his Zone starts, its really really bad for Phil.

TLDR: Phil is so unbelievable bad in the defensive zone, his heavily inflated offensive numbers aren't enough to total out to him being effective.