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Can we lock this until he's actually traded?
Well, he’s either gone this month or next guaranteed. It’s good to reflect on the positives while we justify we he needs to leave
Can we lock this until he's actually traded?
There's a good subsection of this board which is composed of the type of person
"who'll stay in a failing relationship for that extra 1-2 years to make it truly bitter instead of getting out at the right time with some happy memories left intact", isn't there?
or starts to think someone knows something that he doesn't.That way he knows how much he was appreciated
Right. We are still at the point where he is appreciated. But look how frustrated we got during the season at his play. Imagine if he stayed for the rest of his contract....these cup wins would probably be forgotten just like people did with Orpik lol. He played a big role in our matchups against the Wings yet nobody could stand him by the time he left.
Let Phil leave now while we are only 2 years removed from back to back cups. And keep the 2 on 1's he lets up from a turnover on the PP under 50 and he will still be remembered as the difference
or starts to think someone knows something that he doesn't.
He helped them win his first 2 years here, but i'm more then ready to move on from him.
I don't got much appreciation for a player that takes games off the way he does, the lack of effort and lack of desire to play any defense in many games was very frustrating for me to watch.
Lettuce remember the good times
(what? you don't put lettuce on your hot dogs?)
I'll still follow his career...keep an eye on what the catsup to...Hopefully we can ketchup when he returns for a game....
I'm surprised at how popular moving Kessel is around here. He's an affordable PPG or close to it playmaker on a team that struggled to find that in a winger outside of Neal for years and years. This requirement that he play defense was weirdly unnecessary during the Cup runs when the Penguins' entire identity was keeping the play moving the other way; Kessel was a huge part of that in front of a really mobile, fantastic defense. To me, this represents yet another step away from that identity, following the dismantling of that defense and speed on the roster.
Kessel has his warts but he's a streaky scoring winger; there are like three scoring wingers in the league that actually bring what people seem to want out of Kessel. The rest of them don't bother to play defense and struggle through cold spells too. There's a certain level of production where the good is worth the bad and in my opinion Kessel clears that.
How many points does Sullivan have to chase off the roster before he's the problem?
Kessel is older, will not play on the third line, is getting worse defensively than he already was, has betrayed the trust of the coaching staff since those Cups when it comes to his stupid Ironman streak, etc. Phil is not a ppg winger elsewhere, much like Neal in 2014 (except worse defensively).
BUT
This thread is to celebrate the positives of Phil.