PHIL KESSEL RUMORS & GOSSIP
2014 NHL Trophy Tracker: Leafs’ Phil Kessel Joins Tight MVP Race
The NHL award races are starting to heat up with just over a month remaining in the regular season.
Several of the awards lack a clear frontrunner, which should make for exciting races and intense debates as the season winds down.
Check out NESN.com’s inaugural trophy tracker below.
Hart Trophy (Most Valuable Player)
1) Ryan Getzlaf, Center, Anaheim Ducks
2) Phil Kessel, Right...
Hockey Hilarity: Satire at it's Finest
Today, we have a piece about Phil Kessel from yesterday that was downright incredible on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin. This scathing editorial on how the Toronto Maple Leafs should trade Phil Kessel immediately comes from Pension Plan Puppets over SBNation. Here is the link.
The whole thing, for those that can't read English or don't watch the game...
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13 days ago
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Maple Leafs' Phil Kessel might be a little sluggish since returning from the Olympics
Phil Kessel has always been considered a great talent - albeit a lazy player - by some factions of the Toronto media and fanbase.Today, some of those Leafs fans may try to toot their own horn, as Kessel looked sluggish, repeatedly dropped to one knee to catch his breathe and was the first person to leave Wednesday's practice, according to the Toronto Star.Kessel is in the...
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14 days ago
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WATCH: Phil Kessel had a fantastic reaction to smelling salts
Hockey players get pretty amped up before games, but sometimes that’s just not enough. Sometimes, you need to go to the smelling salts. Team USA forward Phil Kessel is someone who dabbles in the smelling salts, and he went back to that well prior to the Americans’ bronze medal matchup with Finland on Saturday at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Kessel’s reaction to the salts was priceless...
Olympic Hockey: The moment we’ve all been waiting for
Four years ago, when the US fell to Canada in Vancouver, there was but one feeling left after all the anger, heartache and dejection had worn off: ambition. Let’s play those dudes again.
The Americans, after all, had beaten their rivals from the north just a week before playing them for the Gold Medal. When the Canadians answered back seven days later, it merely knotted things...
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21 days ago
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Phil Kessel Went Toe-To-Toe With Smelling Salts Again
While Phil Kessel has been tearing it up against the international competition in Sochi, he’s also been upholding his tradition of forging epic battles off the ice. After he dominated a bottle of Powerade like you wouldn’t believe last week, Kessel had another intense showdown against a personal arch nemesis – smelling salts – on the bench during Team USA’s quarterfinals...
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22 days ago
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USA rolls Slovenia 5-1 to earn automatic spot in quarterfinals
SOCHI, Russia -- Phil Kessel scored two of his three goals in the opening 4:33 and became the first U.S. player with an Olympic hat trick in more than a decade, leading the Americans to a 5-1 win over Slovenia on Sunday.
The U.S. (3-0) earned an automatic spot in the quarterfinals.
Kessel scored 1:04 after the puck dropped, showing that the Americans didn't have a hangover after...
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25 days ago
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Phil Kessel scores 3 to help US rout Slovenia 5-1
Phil Kessel scored two of his three goals in the opening 4:33 and became the first U.S. player with an Olympic hat trick in more than a decade, leading the Americans to a 5-1 win over Slovenia on Sunday.
The U.S. (3-0) earned an automatic spot in the quarterfinals.
Kessel scored 1:04 after the puck dropped, showing that the Americans didn't have a hangover after their emotionally...
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25 days ago
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Phil Kessel pounds a Powerade, teammates prank him
Late in their first game against Slovakia where the US completely dominated, cameras caught Phil Kessel pounding a Powerade on the bench. His teammates got word of it and had a surprise for him in his locker the next day.
After Team USA's Phil Kessel was shown chugging entire bottle of Powerade during win vs. Slovakia, teammates filled his locker with bottles.
— Chris Kuc ...
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27 days ago
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WATCH: Phil Kessel goes overboard on smelling salts
Phil Kessel was in serious need of a pick-me-up during Toronto's game against the Florida Panthers. So, he enlisted the help of smelling salts to help get him through.Go ahead and count the amount of sniffs yourself. Not one, not two, not three, but Kessel took seven sniffs before calling it quits.Apparently, the salts didn't do much for him, as Kessel went pointless in the...
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February 05, 2014
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