CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence

It was Phil Kessel’s first game back and it was late in the first period when the new Leaf thought that he would wheel the puck up the ice.

“I don’t remember (ever) getting hit like that,” Kessel said. “I put myself in a bad situation to tell you the truth, I shouldn’t have done that. Clean hit, he got me good.”

“When he came back (to the bench), [Kessel] said that’s the hardest he’s ever been hit in this League,” said Ron Wilson. “You could kind of see it coming; he was dancing through a minefield. … You’ve got to give him a double thumbs up for taking a hit like that, a massive hit and coming back and still being a dominant player every shift.”

I miss Mattias in a ‘nucks uniform.