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Originally Posted by BigTuna
100% true.
You think Phil Kessel was overrated in Toronto?
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Yes, he was.
Kessel always was a one dimensional shooter - definitely an elite one - but he was never the kind of player that could lead a team anywhere. You are going to argue that he was underrated because of how often Simmons and the like trashed him. But the simple truth is that he got trashed so much because he couldn't live up to the unreasonable expectations that very same media set for him. And those expectations existed entirely because he was a Maple Leaf. Toronto expected a complimentary player to be an all-around star leader and treated him like he was.