buconvict {l Wrote}:flyingelvii {l Wrote}:buconvict {l Wrote}:flyingelvii {l Wrote}:At being a defensive forward, yes. Luckily, Team USA, unlike the Toronto Maple Leafs, has enough good sized guys and decent two-way players that he will be able to focus on what he does best, score goals. USA doesn't have the skill to match with Canada, Russia, or other top-end teams, so they'll bang bodies. Basically, it's a Brian Burke team, shocking as he selected the team. Of course Ron Wilson is the coach so who knows what the hell the team is going to do. Your agenda is comical, though. The Olympics don't enforce a salary cap so it is a lot easier to create fantasy teams with the best players possible and Kessel is probably the second best American goal scorer behind Parise, so he's going to be on the team.
So Kessel's inclusion to Team USA was okay because they have a lot of two-way players, but he had to be traded away from the Bruins because he wasn't a two-way player like the rest of the team?
Thanks for clearing that up. It all makes sense now.
Please re-read the bolded part. You seem to have missed that in driving your agenda off the road and into a ditch.
If your main point was about the cap, then perhaps you shouldn't have made it after saying that Kessel would fit into team USA because they're defensive minded but didn't fit into the Bruins because they're defensive minded.
A well-framed argument as always.
Please point out the place where I referenced the Bruins in my post, directly or indirectly. The only NHL team I referenced was the Maple Leafs, whereas you are making things up so you can create an argument. I can see this is going to become another thread for you to bitch about Kessel so I'll get my talking points out of the way:
-Kessel can score a shit-ton of goals
-Kessel's defensive game has regressed under Ron Wilson
-Kessel is a prodigious offensive talent who should fit nicely with Team USA
-Kessel should fit well on Team USA because he won't be forced to play as strict a two-way game as he did with the Bruins (first B's reference...hooray!)
-Kessel should benefit from the open ice that the big guys generate, thus using his speed and quick release to create chances
-Kessel would have fit on the Bruins, as would any goal scorer, as Claude actually got him to play defense but there was not a lot of cap space and he didn't really want to come back, which created problems in the negotiation process and eventually led to his departure
I really love how any discussion about the Bruins always turns into a Kessel bitch-fest for you. Let your binky go. He's gone and won't come back anytime soon.