Its tough seeing a skilled player leave and have success elsewhere, but I try to look at it an organization-wide level. The Bruins organization, which is already fairly deep, will be adding a ton of high quality talent to its pool over the next couple years. The Leafs organization, which in my understanding doesn’t have a lot of promising prospects, will not have an opportunity to add very much (no 1st rounders, only 1 second rounder) in the next couple years. The real beauty is that we’re making our team much better in the long run, while keeping a division rival from being able to rebuild the right way (they can try through free agency…but in the cap era, that doesn’t really seem viable).

The Leafs will torch weak competition, but Kessel was never gonna resigns as a Bruin without tearing the team apart to make room for him. We have Savard for a long, long, long time now, plus the draft picks we stockpiled up. The leafs are a one line team & they are still one of the worst teams in the league.

The B’s have 5 picks in the first two rounds in ‘10, we’ll have an early pick from the leafs, a late pick (ours), an early 2nd round (leafs), a mid picks (TB bolts), then ours, plus another first round pick in ‘11. Also remember that the Providence Bruins are stocked with talent, look how we did not bring up Rask last year, the B’s have the ’07 eighth overall pick Zach Hamill playing on the farm now, nearly made the big squad this year. Stop worrying about Kessel, I know he is a human highlight reel, but he also has the temperament of T.O.

We resigned Lucic, Savard, Thomas, now lets hope the B’s get Chara’s deal re-done, I would rather have them than Phil Kessel, who is more concerned about himself than the team.

All you had to do was watch Kessel the other night and when he got hit he didnt do anything after that, he took a cheap shot at Recchi of all guys who hits clean and he got smacked a couple of other times, he is an offensive player, yes he is playing hard because he just signed for big money and has to justify his existence now. But other than that glad he is in Toronto.

He didn’t want to be here anymore, so what could the Bruins do? I admit, his offense is missed, but evidently Phil had a problem with management trying to get him to improve his two-way play. So I heard, anyway. Plus, he has a crappy attitude as Todd The Terrible mentioned above. The Bruins are a team with a lot of potential, and if Kessel didn’t like it here, the hell with him!! There are few things I despise more in the world of sports than someone like Kessel who values the almighty dollar over a very good future with a very good team, that wasn’t exactly offering him a pile of dog crap to stay, figuratively speaking. Good luck, Phil…just not against us. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!