Happy Canada Day Toronto
Fans, teammates, team personnel, and local/national media in Toronto and across the country in Canada won't have Phil Kessel (the American sniper) to drag you down anymore... or was that you won't have Kessel to drag through the distorted deathtrap that is the 'mecca' of hockey.
Reality is, no one wants to deal with that situation in Toronto. There's a reason why Toronto hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967 and it isn't just bad ownership or inept front office personnel.
Honestly, some of the criticism placed at the skates of Kessel was probably born from nationalistic feelings for Toronto to have an American as their best player and not a big strong Canadian boy from the sod farms of Thunder Bay.