The quote in the OP tells it all.They are losing on purpose.We are all happy that the team is tanking but crying because the players doing it are playing bad.
Sportsnet: "Top" Line Woes
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TLeafsFan
A True BeLeafer
Trade Bozak for anything the Leafs can get and then see how Kessel reacts playing with someone else before we walk away
Kessel's lack of work ethic doesn't belong in a Leafs rebuild, IMO when trying to teach the new young players coming in a positive team first attitude and strong work ethic.
Kessel is all about Kessel.
CULTURE CHANGE!
Make it happen Shanny.
My loyalty to the team will be significantly tested if Bozak is back in a top-6 role next season.
He's proven that he is a useless passenger with below average offensive skill.
3C at best. I could accept him on the team next season if he was guaranteed to receive PP time only as an injury fill in, and played in the bottom 6 at ES.
I just can't handle him playing an offensive role. I'm done.
Overall, I'd be much happier if we can clear his cap space. Bozak for a 7th.
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ULF_55
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I don't see how Bozak and Kessel can be held to the same accountability?
One has a 8 cap hit, which puts him in the elite category, the other is paid as a 2nd. liner.
Kessel - 10th. highest cap hit
van Riemsdyk ~ 171st.
Bozak ~ 182nd.
They aren't even in the same ballpark as Kessel.
It is a cap league, and the cap rules.
Couldn't agree more.
I just watched a great video clip of Carey Price, who sponsors a breakfast club at his former school.
Really cool stuff. You see PK getting involved with the community, growing the fan base and giving back all the time.
Our boy Phil just sits there all surly, and emotionally wounded, complaining about the media, and the coach.
Where's his contribution to the community? I don't mean team commitment, I mean personal initiatives.
Kessel is all about Kessel. You nailed it.
TLeafsFan
A True BeLeafer
TLeafsFan
A True BeLeafer
IDK perhaps Bozak should have realized that actually staying up on the top line with Kessel and 1PP was hurting the team and volunteered to take himself off the line for the good of the team when games still mattered.
Brewsky
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ULF_55
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So now Bozak is responsible for coaching the team?
That Bozak is one amazing individual.
TLeafsFan
A True BeLeafer
No just realizing and playing his best suited role on it all by himself, despite what his buddy might want. For the good of the team.
Although that may cause a lot of turmoil with his roommate...
You're right. It would have been better to have a couch with the guts to break the two up permanently and live with the whining and complaining.
You do realize that Kessel has obliterated Bozak statistically since Bozak entered the league, right?
Kessel earned that contract. I'm not a big fan of him, but you can't just ignore his offensive production. He's one of the highest scorers in the league over the last few years.
Play Bozak away from Kessel, and see if he earns his $4m. He can't even earn it playing with Kessel.
He underperforms his usage, considerably. Not a good player.
LeafalCrusader
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Didn't Horacheck break them up his first game here. Not sure why he ever put them back together.
Yep. I feel bad for the team that gets stuck with Kessel. Gonna be completely useless very soon (if he isn't already). He's got skills ya... but he makes your team worse. For an $8 million player, you should not make your team worse.
If you gave me the choice of having Winnik on my team for 1 year or Kessel on my team for 1 year... at the exact same salary... I would take Winnik. I believe the team would win more games with Winnik over Kessel.
Ya... he's been bad. Not as bad as the top line... but there's no reason why he shouldn't be producing.
I kind of wanted to keep him, but at this point, I wouldn't really care if we traded him.
hobarth
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Kessel has been bad, yes, Bozak, well he rarely counted but what really helped the 1st line was JVR going to the front of the opposition's net, he doesn't do that any more.
RC told him to go to the front of the opposition's net, forced him to, but RC isn't there anymore. Going to the net was JVR's greatest strength, he doesn't do much else but his presence in front of the net created space that Kessel exploited, there's no space for Kessel anymore so no matter how talented Kessel is he hasn't the linemates that he needs to achieve.
TO's 1st line is undermanned with players of too little talent, Bozak, and the undernotivated, JVR.
RC told him to go to the front of the opposition's net, forced him to, but RC isn't there anymore. Going to the net was JVR's greatest strength, he doesn't do much else but his presence in front of the net created space that Kessel exploited, there's no space for Kessel anymore so no matter how talented Kessel is he hasn't the linemates that he needs to achieve.
TO's 1st line is undermanned with players of too little talent, Bozak, and the undernotivated, JVR.
blueberrie
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The ones that the Leafs pay the big money to, and feed the most minutes. I'm not sure if they are the best players anymore though.
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