The 'told you so' tweets sound like responses to your constant bozak heckling, not like instigators.
Bozak has centred one of the most productive lines in hockey three years running now, and is a good pk and faceoff man to boot. He simply cannot be deserving of the obsessive barrage of hate you guys give him.
Probably; it's a self fulfilling prophecy that I'm kinda stuck with now, admittedly.
There's stuff I like about Bozak. He's good in the shootout, when his shot connects period it's pretty accurate, he doesn't take a lot of penalties, he appears to be a solid guy in the locker room and to fans (though he should really ignore his Twitter and forget Halloween is a thing). While his faceoff ability is grossly overstated (he paces out to an extra draw win a game above average, and less than a goal gained per season), he's still the guy on this team that you trust when you need a big draw.
I also don't blame him for taking his contract, and know that he tries his absolute best to try to live up to the expectations of his paycheque and role.
This is all stuff that I point out with frequency too, but it gets ignored because I'm "the Hates Bozak guy"
There are a lot of people who dislike him to the point of thinking he's not even an NHL level player, which is a stretch. I think he'd be a stellar third line centre that you can occasionally bump up to the second line, and would be awesome to have short term at 2-2.5M. Maybe more if you're a team that's not pushed up against the cap.
But I don't think it's deniable at this point that his line produces in spite of him, not because of him, and that his impact on Kessel's production dwindles by the year. Pretty much every time someone else has been tried next to Kessel, while the sample size is small, that player has out produced Bozak and Kessel's numbers have gone up. I don't think it's unrealstic to feel that other people should be used in that role if there's statistical evidence that there would be a benefit. Even the "he's the defensive cog" argument is starting to fade as Kessel and JVR's two way games improve and Bozak's defensive numbers seep towards the bottom half of Toronto's forwards.
I also don't think it's a coincidence that the PK improved when he became the centre of the second unit instead of the first. Not to say that he's bad, but he looks for the SHG more than McClement does which leads to more turnovers and fewer clears. I still think he has merit on the PK but he isn't a game changer.
Basically, his job is to play a high offensive role and there are other players, even internally, that seem like they'd be better at it. I think that while pointing this out can be tiresome to some, there's merit to expressing the info, especially since my audience/readership frequently changes.
The consequence, of course, is being typecast as being completely biased against a player like I am now. The reality is that I like him, I just really don't like the role he has on this team.