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So, about Phil Kessel...

This is Phil's favorite time of the year, in fact, it doesn't get any better than this.

One Year Ago

By now he is fishing, playing ping pong and video games with his boy Bozie and doing all the other things that an $8 million a year NHL player loves to do at this time of the year.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Potvin29 said:
Seriously?

I mean, even the Toronto Sun took the high ground on that one. That's saying something.

Hold on, I'm getting something....sources are telling me Phil Kessel is...hold onto your hats here folks...enjoying himself.  He is not in the playoffs yet he is enjoying the activities that he is doing away from hockey.

We'll have more on this incredible development, including reaction from Patrice Bergeron who is sitting in a dark room stewing over not making the playoffs.
 
When the pens are eliminated next week I better be reading reports that Crosby is brooding in a cave somewhere awaiting the next NHL season like the phantom.

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I honestly can't believe some of the insanity that has come out of the wood work here. The main reason I joined years ago was because posters here were both Leafs fans and not insane.
 
Bender said:
I honestly can't believe some of the insanity that has come out of the wood work here. The main reason I joined years ago was because posters here were both Leafs fans and not insane.

These days, you pretty much have to be insane to be a fan of the Leafs.  No?
 
Al14 said:
Bender said:
I honestly can't believe some of the insanity that has come out of the wood work here. The main reason I joined years ago was because posters here were both Leafs fans and not insane.

These days, you pretty much have to be insane to be a fan of the Leafs.  No?

Not insane, just loyal.
 
The case against trading him. Seems to assume Nylander and Brown are going to be brought along sooner than we think, but, even if they (and whoever we draft this year) aren't, the idea is their development will benefit from being sheltered:

Phil Kessel had a bad season. Well, more like a really bad half-season. But, if there is reason for optimism, it is that his numbers were simply so bad that they just aren?t repeatable. It would reasonable to expect a bounce-back year in 2015-16.
What will not improve in the offseason is Kessel?s trade value. Teams may focus more on his short-term shortcomings and the stench of that awful 2014-15 Leafs team as a whole. Offers may amount to pennies on the dollar, which would see a top player in the league leave Toronto for not much in return. This does not benefit the Leafs now, nor will it benefit them five years from now.
The Leafs also have some potential NHL-ready players in William Nylander and Connor Brown for next season. They may also draft a player this offseason that is ready to make that step. In any event, it is in the Leafs? long-term interest that these players need to be eased into the NHL and not thrown off the deep-end.
On a skeleton roster where every top six player is harvested for spare parts, this is simply not possible. But, if you retain some top six talent for next season, it allows players like Nylander and Brown to develop in easier minutes. If one believes as I do that Kessel will bounce back offensively, this will remove a lot of the pressure on these players to produce.

link: http://faceoffcircle.ca/2015/04/22/the-case-against-trading-phil-kessel/
 
Kessel would shelter B & N from being thrown off the deep end?  What does that even mean, and if it means anything, how?
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Kessel would shelter B & N from being thrown off the deep end?  What does that even mean, and if it means anything, how?

I'd imagine it refers to something like what we saw when Kadri was brought up permanently in the lock out season.
 
I don't get it...and you can't judge by the headline because the story writers don't do the headlines..an editor will make up an inflammatory line to sell the piece...
 

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