from Tim Benz of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
The Penguins are trying to trade Phil Kessel.
That's according to Mark Madden of the team's flagship station, 105.9 FM. He made the statement on his radio show yesterday.
According to Madden, the Penguins are going to try to move Kessel to another team this offseason, and "Kessel is OK with that."
As Madden phrased it, "the key word is try." He couched the chances of a potential deal happening because of Kessel's $6.8 million price tag and his reputation of being a hard player to coach.
Madden cited "sources close to the Penguins and to Phil Kessel." His explanation for Kessel's endorsement of a potential trade stems from two points.
The first of which is Kessel's alleged displeasure over the fact that he hasn't been able to play on a line with Evgeni Malkin full-time, instead being used as the balancing point for head coach Mike Sullivan to spread his top talent over three scoring lines.
The second is "underlying dissatisfaction" between Kessel and Sullivan.
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