If the Sabres were offered an outright 1st round pick for Kesselring they 100% would’ve taken that
He was in Lindy’s dog house
Injuries or no injuries, he was not passing any of Dahlin, Samuelsson, Power, Byram, or Timmins on the depth chart
Metsa is the 7D
Lindy clearly doesn’t want the 3rd pair to be 2 RHD (Kesselring and Timmins)
They were never keeping him
He’s arbitration eligible and you play the game of walking him to UFA. I bet they were even pondering not giving him a QO to avoid arb
Holding him hostage in hopes of boosting his trade value just in case someone gets injured is a fool’s game
They had to trade him. They need the cap space. Holding onto Michael Kesselring and holding up your offseason over this guy is not worth it. Take the L and move on
@williamnyy23 I mean I think that’s widely understood, you want him to host a press conference on a below average middle reliever? I’m not really understanding what you want him to do lol