FLPensFan wrote:Jim wrote:FLPensFan wrote:Dan Kingerski has an article today on Pittsburgh Hockey Now stating that the biggest mistake Rutherford made was not trading Phil Kessel over this past summer.
Kingerski claims trading Hagelin in season was the wrong core piece to trade, and Kessel should have went during the summer. Kingerski claims that several "middling" teams had made some interesting offers for Kessel at the draft, and that recent follow up with Penguins sources have said it definitely was not unanimous among Penguins management to keep Kessel this past summer.
The more that I think on this the more BS I think it is. If this "writer" knows that the offers were interesting, why doesn't he say who and what they are? Journalistic integrity? HA! No. You can't state specific when there are no specifics to state.
I'm by no means defending Kingerski's credibility, but, it's pretty simple....if, for example, only 4 people knew about said interesting offer(s), and, for example, Rutherford and Guerin are two of the 4, well, you've probably just got someone in some hot water for leaking information they shouldn't have, and it's likely not hard to narrow down who was the leak. And then at that point, if they still have a job, they aren't going to share information with you anymore.
People tend to share a lot off the record. You break that trust, you won't be reporting with any decent sources in the future.
Wasn't Kingerski the source of the rumor that a trade of Kessel to the Wild at the draft is a done deal? I'll eat my hat if that happens, but because of the source I'd be willing to bet that that WON'T happen.