Yeah uhh Classy doesnt win games look how the players reacted to Skinners 1000th game and Okies. If Okie showed you work ethic you must not of worked a hard job a day in your life. I think you built up some fantasy in your head where he is superman or something because he wore his hat.
He was completely milquetoast and brought nothing to the table besides having his ineptitude rub off on all of our young players. Sorry i don't think that deserves praise.
I don’t think you can question his work ethic on the ice. He put in an honest days work in his play on the ice. As someone that never liked him, I won’t question that.
What I will question is his leadership capabilities and if he was a good enough leader. Not being in the room, it’s tough for me to say with certainty if he was a bad one, but he was brought in the room from day one to be a leader of the room, and as a fan, the disorder and a lot of the issues that happened during his whole tenure here, could possibly be traced to said quality of locker room leadership.
If guys like Eichel, ROR, Bogo, and others were questioned on their qualities, Kyle deserves a lot of criticism as well and the fact that a lot of those issues continued when each and every single one of those players left while Kyle remained, I think it’s more than fair to look at him as a leader and question his effectiveness.
That’s not to say he deserves 100% blame, but he was paid for more than his work ethic, and I just don’t see the results of 8 years of his leadership capabilities as a success in anyway.