For as little hype as Wednesday's start of NHL free agency received, it turned out to be a pretty exciting day. If hockey is a chessboard, this was supposed to be a day where a few pawns changed places, maybe a knight or bishop thrown in.
Instead, WE…HAVE…A…TRADE! And it overshadowed everything else on the day, with apologies to Cal O'Reilly being close to signing for two years in Buffalo to play with his brother, Ryan, according to WGR 550.
Phil Kessel, on the 3,352,245th trade rumor involving him, was finally, actually traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins, as announced on NHL.com. The Penguins will now contemplate possibly the scariest forward line in NHL history, with Kessel-Sidney Crosby-Evgeni Malkin.
Travis Hughes of SB Nation cued up the funny on Twitter with a future Penguins depth chart after the deal:
"Kessel-Crosby-Malkin" and then "Guy-Guy-Guy" all the way through.
Look, the Penguins might still be a thin team depth-wise. To call them "top heavy" might just be accurate. But it says here that the Penguins won the blockbuster deal that brought Kessel to Pittsburgh. For the reason ...
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