Kesselring

[FeenCity]

Just seen this kid has put up a few points. I have never heard of him before.

Does anyone know anything about him? Is this just a flash in the pan or is there something there with him?

Thanks in advance.

[stefan17]

I'd also be interested if anyone has any insight! He is available and was actually considering snagging him!

[Pengwin7]

Big lanky hockey players are always interesting.
Because they fill into their body (meaning their "coordination") much much slower than the shorter Stankoven and Benson wing-types of the world.
Remember Chara... took him many years to really find his stride/pace/timing.
And when he did... boy - that big shot.
He became some a fantasy hockey gem & multi-cat weapon.

So... Kesselring has a chance as a sleeper.
I don't know anything about his actual play enough to comment.
(Seems "too wiry" to be a multi-cat PIM/hit guy... but he may still score)

*following

[Darkwing Puck]

Apparently the Oilers traded him to the Coyotes because they favoured Philip Broburg, which, as we can see, might not have been a great idea.

He's tall (6'4"), but not very heavy (Hockey Reference lists him at 190lbs). He's still young enough that he could put on muscle, but as Pengwin7 noted, it's hard to project how much value he might have in peripheral cats. For what it's worth, he did pick up 85 PIMs in 104 games from 2021-23 with Bakersfield in the AHL, so it does seem like there's some truculence to his game.

Probably the biggest obstacle for him, at least this season, is that the Coyotes have a lot of near-NHL calibre defensemen (so much so that Juuso Valimaki is actually playing the wing right now). Presumably when one of Hayton, McBain, or Boyd returns Valimaki will move back to the blue line and Kesselring will be the odd man out. He probably deserves to play over Josh Brown or Matt Dumba, but the Coyotes are presumably hoping to flip Dumba at the trade deadline, so they are going to want to keep him in the lineup and they have apparently been linked to Noah Hanifin.

[Moses]

Here is a short video of Kesselring and GM Bill Armstrong discussing what Kesselring needs to do to be successful in the NHL.

https://youtu.be/P2RVOSft6pQ?si=I4URxW6ShVAKAEvb