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"You're a boring old man"
I don't really get focusing on Thornton as he is known as an all-time bad playoff performer regardless of what you think of him otherwise... (top 100 player for me, rather him than Francis)
I know you're having a bad time, but people want to 'scream' and 'hold their nose' on here with regards to Crosby (and Kessel)? Not seeing it...
Did you see what the Sharks, Thornton and Pavs did through 3 rounds? Got the finals and were completely shut down for 6 games.
It matters.
As for the latter part I saw the constant "Kessel was robbed" narrative, including the HoH board and really all people could point to was 23 points. If you actually break down the biggest moments of the biggest games, Sid was in on most of them.
Again, I'm not saying Sid's first Smythe was great. Hell it wasn't even average. But Kessel wasn't robbed. If he was robbed then Kuznetsov was robbed even more. That's all I'm saying. Kessel didn't do anything so extraordinary that he should have been a lock.
But enough (directing this mainly at myself haha) with the hot dog master, he's not up for discussion.