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Originally Posted by Blaster86
No, what you're talking about is that the Canucks got rid of him for these reasons. The argument was never that he had these qualities, that was agreed upon by everyone.
No, what you were suggesting is that Benning moved him because he saw it as addition by subtraction and that it was because Benning was a "smart hockey mind" and saw Kesler as a detriment to the team because he dives, cries and murders puppies.
Except that the original point we were arguing is not subjective at all. Benning's first business was to attempt to convince Kesler to stay. This was reported by a couple of the TSN guys after the hire. This quote seems to confirm that:
In the end, he was traded because he wanted to leave. Not because Benning disliked the diving or dickishness, but because he said "I want out."
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I don't expect Benning would have thrown him under the bus. That would have been a very Kessler-esque thing to do, and again, wanting out was further evidence of his complete lack of character.
And while you tried to pawn off some of his antics as justifiable, evil1 wanted evidence like the idea of Kessler being a rat was a foreign concept to him.