Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe wrote a great article today breaking down Kessel's production for the Bruins. The way he did it was by looking up who Kessel scored his goals against, then broke down the percentage against "playoff teams". Here is how Kessel did...
1. Loui Eriksson, 63.9 percent
2. Dany Heatley, 61.5
3. Patrick Marleau, 55.3
4. Rick Nash, 55
5. Zach Parise, 51.1
6. Thomas Vanek, 50
7. Ilya Kovalchuk, 48.9
8. Mike Cammalleri, 48.7
9. Marian Hossa, 47.5
10. Alex Ovechkin, 42.9
11. Jeff Carter, 39.1
12. Eric Staal, 37.5
13. Kessel, 19.4
There is a huge drop off from 12 to 13. So when Kessel is asking for $5 million a year the Bruins can use this stat against him. This also could explain why the market for Kessel is so down. He is not a great two way player (meaning playing defense along with offense), and the Bruins just don't have a high feeling of value for Kessel.
Still, I want Kessel back, but I found this information very interesting and at least now I can understand Boston's thinking on the value of Kessel.
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