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Originally Posted by Cowperson
In player polls, his peers were annually rating Phaneuf among the top three most overrated NHL players BEFORE he was traded by the Flames.
This is nothing new.
Cowperson
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Dion drove me insane every OT when he'd pinch/try to throw a massive check like an absolute mad man and cost us an odd man rush. There were times it felt like he was single handedly responsible for every single point we threw away in OT. I'm fully aware my bias resulted in me noticing that to an unfair degree, but I couldn't help it. Of course it doesn't help that he did exactly that in one of the Leaf's most important playoff games.
He feels like a "where there's smoke there's fire" kind of player. When the players in the league are consistently marking a guy as ineffective you have to wonder a little.