Phil Kessel, Homeless No More

Certain stories are larger than life. One of those is Phil Kessel’s. If there ever was a person who’s been bashed for no legitimate reason, look no further than the native of Madison, Wisconsin.


See, the thing with communication is, that there is more to it than actual words. When you’re hoisting the Stanley Cup on a stage in front of a packed city, you don’t really need words. That’ll make for a picture which speaks for itself.


That up there, all that is Phil “The Thrill”. A teammate, a regular guy who loves and prefers to hang out with his squad, instead of offering speeches or answering questions from people he doesn’t know nor care about. That’s the essence of number 81. He cares about the ones who care about him, the people who mean a lot to him. That’s where his focus is.


He isn’t saying a word because he doesn’t need to. As Paul Steigerwald correctly assessed in the above video: Not even a million words could have explained what it means to the hockey world to have Kessel hoisting the Stanley Cup, a single year after being traded away from Toronto.


Kessel, then, is probably planning to put a little more salt in the wounds of the people who did him wrong when he was with the Leafs..........

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