Kessel is most overrated player in NHL: Postmedia Poll

Pittsburgh Penguins right winger Phil Kessel against the Tampa Bay Lightning during first-period NHL action at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., on Jan. 15, 2016. (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)As we all know, hockey fans are rational human beings, fair-minded to a fault, and able to see the big picture without petty provincialism.

National Hockey League players, similarly, are all about the well-being of the game, hold no grudges and never make decisions based on factors as crass as salary, climate, taxation or the median hotness of women in a given city’s nightclubs.

Also (full disclosure here), the task of interpreting results of this 2015-16 Postmedia hockey poll of players and fans has fallen…