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For $8 million a year, is Kessel giving the Leafs the leadership and grit needed to win a Stanley Cup? He's one dimensional. Can you compare him to Crosby, Jonathan Toews as players who you can build a championship team around? I don't think so.
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Will believe that once Kessel wins a Hart, Art Ross, Ted Linsday Award and takes his team to the 7th game of the Stanley Cup Finals. Not to mention put up with all the criticism from the day they were drafted.
Canucks fans must be the only ones to use not winning a cup as a sign of achievement
I'll give the Sedins all the credit in the world, they are great regular season players. IMO their playoff numbers are inflated as a lot of their points come off mean-nothing goals late in games or points that don't have an impact on the outcome, how many big goals do you remember during the cup run?
They will never change the way they play, torts isn't just going to come in and make them a grittier pairing it's not in their nature, so as we stand now we are essentially the same team as last year with a shook up bottom six and puting hopes in players like Booth and Kassian that they will exceed expectations, that isn't good enough to compete with the best in the west let alone in the league.
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Canucks fans must be the only ones to use not winning a cup as a sign of achievement
I'll give the Sedins all the credit in the world, they are great regular season players. IMO their playoff numbers are inflated as a lot of their points come off mean-nothing goals late in games or points that don't have an impact on the outcome, how many big goals do you remember during the cup run?
They will never change the way they play, torts isn't just going to come in and make them a grittier pairing it's not in their nature, so as we stand now we are essentially the same team as last year with a shook up bottom six and puting hopes in players like Booth and Kassian that they will exceed expectations, that isn't good enough to compete with the best in the west let alone in the league.
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It's amazing how fast people forget about the Sedins' playoff goals against Chicago in 2011. How's this for a big goal in game 2?
As for Coach Torts and the team roster, we'll see how good this team is during the season and playoffs compared to the rest of the Western conference. -way too early to write off this team.
You're telling me that this is not a big goal by Daniel?
Pastarocket, you're very critical of Kessel, while overly generous of the Sedins.
I guess this is where I qualify my statements by saying I'm a Canucks fan, and never been a fan of the Leafs.
Kessel is an elite player, as are the Sedins. Is Kessel worth $8M? Your worth what the market will pay. Kessel could get $8M in the open market with the cap likely going up over the next three seasons.
He had the same number of points as both Sedins in last year's playoffs.
He's been criticized ever since he got traded to the Leafs. He's never had wingers to play with. At least the Sedins have each other. Kessel has played with Bozac and Lupel for the past two season.
And you know Kessel will punch or slash you back if you punch him in the face.
I think Kessel will have another PPG season this year and start a downward trend. Peak is usually the age of 27.
I'm not saying Kessel is at the level of the Sedins, but you can't shit on what he's done.
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MR BIGGS, you make good comments. I'm not the perfect judge of NHL players by any means.
My opinion is biased against Kessel especially after that third slash he took against John Scott when two Toronto players were trying to defend their team mate. -lost quite a bit of respect for this guy after the lumberjack swing of his stick.
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turns out, the team didn't like MayRay enough to care.
