I'm glad he found a job somewhere in the league. He definitely puts in the effort. End of the day he's not big enough for his physicality to make much of a difference, and his skating and skills aren't quite good enough for him to have any scoring or defensive role. But he didn't give up on his dream, he just kept working and managed to find a way to stick despite lacking all those physical tools.
Preds fans didn't want him back, because we have a surfeit of mediocre tweener type players as it is, but I think on the whole we admired the effort he gave and are glad that he found a job elsewhere in the league. He will always hustle if nothing else.