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Michael Kesselring TRADED for a trade-up in the 1st round by the Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres first trade of the offseason is sending Michael Kesselring to the San Jose Sharks for a trade-up in the 1st round! Jarmo Kekäläinen moves up from the 27th pick to the 20th pick of the 1st round. It sounds like something valuable, but a closer look at the history of the end of the 1st round shows it's a marginal difference between the two. The trade is more about not wanting to pay Kesselring or go to arbitration with him this offseason. Both Josh Doan in the trade, and Mattias Samuelsson in the role made Kesselring expendable. What went wrong for Kesselring? Injuries are a…
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