I know what his role is. I'm just saying, his degree doesn't help him on the ice. Which for some reason you seem to think does.
There is a guy in this thread who literally questioned how he could have "crawled out of the primordial soup." And that's a sentiment that's being shared by quite a few, albeit with a bit less hyperbole. It's not just his play on the ice that's being criticized, it's his intelligence and personality.
If you look at the guy without this emotional reaction you might see a guy who has an NHL career as an enforcer-slash-pest. In a preseason game he got one of our top 6 wingers to suspend himself for 10 games, in a regular season game he got our #1 defenseman to take a penalty in the third period of a close game that allowed his team to get back into the game. Mission accomplished, no?
Regarding the Kessel incident he said he was going to go after whoever was lined up with him on that faceoff, had no intention of actually hurting Kessel, and really had no problem with Kessel's retaliatory slashes. Not nearly as stupid as it's made out to be.
Maybe all these people missed the back-and-forth trash talking between him and Kessel on the benches last night. Seemed pretty good-natured on both sides.