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Kris Letang to another team. GOAT CROSBY 4 HART
- Apr 1, 2018
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Exactly. Sully tends to have ego and favoritism. He showed his Color this season.Kessel was fine the last two years. Some blame can go to him, but Sullivan choosing to favor guys like Sheary, Kuhn, and Rowney ....while never giving Sprong a chance(when we needed scoring) ...and running Cole out at the deadline...
Doesnt bode well.
So we just gonna get rid of every talented player who doesnt fit Sullivans criteria? Not every player has to be like Hornqvist, Hagelin, etc. A team can have guys like Kessel and Sprong...and win.
He tends to bench the wrong players at times but he wouldn’t bench nor hold players accountable that’s f***ing up. Really hurting the team.
He often played players out their comfort zone like defenseman on their wrong side ( playing awful Hunwick over Cole ) (he was needed on the blue line/ big loss)and he didn’t let his team gain steady consistency in the reg season to be great in the playoffs ..
He forced issue with Awful Sheary with Sid and played third liners on the top lines.. etc..
Kessel is the scapegoat in this situation and
Kessel shouldn’t be traded and I think Letang should be.. regardless .. his training..
his brain farts .. among other things will keep hurting this team than a durable winger who’s depth on wing position .. where Kessel was back checking before his little injuries in the reg season..
defense needs to be tweak and good tweak for balance offensive depth than Sheary ..
Depth reasonable backup goalie ..
I don’t see Sully here after his contract ends .. he isn’t on the same page with Rutherford at times..
He plays some players beyond their limitations that are one dimensional players. He tends to be not open to new players that can help the team at times like Jorris or Sprong with his personal bias. He give the wrong players longer leash than needed.
He put great players in wrong situations and ok good non experience players in great situations. He did it all season. He treated the lines like really bad with them constant line changes and Guentzel should’ve never been third line center with Kessel... Crosby was often frustrated like Kessel with his line and all season Crosby line was third line ..
Kessel and ok awful during the playoffs he should have put him with Sheahan long time ago.
I give kessel B- in the playoffs.. blame should fall in sully on the line up.. Hell he could’ve played more with Sid at times.. Brassard didn’t do well with kessel since ce he go to Pittsburgh..
You can say what you want about Kessel.. it look like he wanted to play hard for his team and he was put in bad spots to succeed late in this season with Brassard trade.. Brass and kessel never mesh well together..
I don’t think kessel put his iron man streak before the team because Sully has opportunity to scratch him and put in the Sprong line up.
Instead he played him because he didn’t want Sprong’s to play. Jorris could’ve play wing on the third line..
Regardless Sully’s good turn around with Tocchet to win 2 back to back cups .i believe Tocchet was a major part the success that made Sully look incredible..
Sully failed this reg season and post season.
Sully ‘s season was gargantuan F ..
It’s many reasons not to like Sully hell even question him with bad personnel decisions this season..
If he has issues with Geno and Sid.. then they should be traded before he’s fired.. I think not..
People gotta look beyond the 2 cups and see how it is with Sully. It seem like the player is getting all the blame instead Sully and Kessel .. to be fair..
Sully, Coaching Staff, Murray, Letang and beyond Kessel secondary scoring was no where to be found. Injuries,Bad changing and game plans cost them..
It carried over in the series with pens despite making to the playoffs from the reg season.. many things didn’t get fix nor did Coaching Staff take the blinders off for Defense and not giving players consistency to build really have that identity to go harder against teams in the playoffs..
Players won’t say it in interviews but they stop believing this season and key factors play into that..
like the coaching staff and not having key veteran players that hold players accountable behind Sid and Geno.. Letang didn’t deserve that ‘A’
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