Dave Feschuk: Phil Kessel has an answer for the ‘You can’t rely on Phil’ camp: the NHL’s ironman record
If the best ability is availability, Phil Kessel is about to become the Wayne Gretzky of NHL durability.as a member of the Vegas Golden Knights, the 35-year-old Kessel will tie Keith Yandle for the NHL record for consecutive games played. Yandle took hold of the record in January, when he passed Doug Jarvis’s mark of 964 consecutive games, which had stood for more than 35 years.
“When you look at him, you wouldn't think he'd be that guy with the ironman streak,” Auston Matthews told reporters in Las Vegas on Sunday. “He's had an incredible career.” But Rielly said there’s no doubt that Kessel has done what’s necessarily to play the game he loves. Kessel overcame cancer around the time of his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. And there’s no doubt he’s played through considerable pain en route to the precipice of becoming the first NHLer to play in 1,000 straight games.
"I'll say this: Phil's a guy that plays with his legs and his hockey IQ," Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said recently."So he's not in harm's way in certain areas that other guys might be. Yet he still has the puck a lot. So when you have the puck, you're going to get hit. So obviously, he's a guy that's found his way around the ice that is aware of his surroundings.
The streak, of course, included some truly abysmal stretches of hockey from Kessel in Toronto. It wasn’t long before Kessel was traded by the Leafs to Pittsburgh in the summer of 2015 that Toronto team president Brendan Shanahan lamented that the Leafs employed players who “give half efforts and … don’t appear to enjoy playing here,” a character profile that immediately brought to mind Kessel for anyone who had watched Toronto play that season.
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