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Report: Nashville Predators covet Kessel in potential deal 09.12.09 at 7:40 pm ET
By Joe Haggerty

The Nashville Predators are one of several teams in the running for a potential Phil Kessel trade with the Boston Bruins, according to the Tennessean, and Nashville GM David Poile confirmed interest to the newspaper in a report published Saturday. Poile admitted that he’s spoken with both Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli and Kessel’s agent, Wade Arnott, in recent days, and had nothing but flattering things to say about the 21-year-old sniper.

 ”He’s a young player that scores goals,” said Poile, who also admitted that the Preds wouldn’t be interested in signing Kessel to an offer sheet “and that’s very much of interest to us. We’ve talked concepts. I’d be very interested to see if there might be something he would like from the Predators.”

The Preds have a long list of younger players that could be intriguing to Chiarelli including Russian KHL refugee Alexander Radulov, first round draft pick and former Boston University skater Colin Wilson, Jonathan Blum, Ryan Ellis, Cody Franson and Ryan Suter. Including within those talented puck youngsters are a plethora of talented young defensemen that could supply a serious talent transfusion to a B’s blueline stock that doesn’t boast the greatest amount of depth organizationally.

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  • Paul Dee

    Nashville needs goal scoring. Boston needs prospect depth on defense. This could be a true win-win.

  • dave c

    day late and a dollar short on this one. Word out of Toronto is that Leafs offer two first round picks and a second round pick in exchange for Kessel and a third round pick. Preds won’t tender an offer sheet as they want to keep draft picks. What would be win-win-win would for the B’s to trade him to Preds for some of Nashville’s overstocked D corps, then the Preds in turn trade him to Toronto for the two first rounders and one 2nd. Nashville is still a few years from serious contention, and to get there those picks will help more than Kessel

  • http://bigbadblog.weei.com Joe Haggerty

    I don’t just blindly believe everything I read, dave c…you shouldn’t either.

    –Haggs

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