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Don’t get how people could hate Kesler. Nothing negative could be said about the way he played when he was here, dude gave it all he had every single shift. Regarding how he left, the 2014 was disastrous. Any player would jump ship to get away from the gong show that was the Canucks that season. Kesler had like 4 surgeries at that point and was well over 30, he should have and did demand to go to a contender for a shot at the Cup while he was still a decent player. He had a NTC, so he had every right to demand to be traded to whatever team he wanted. Yes it sucked for us that he demanded only to go to a couple teams, but the Canucks were rebuilding at the time anyways and all Kesler really did was exercise his rights that were in his contract. I didn’t blame him for leaving at all, in fact I admired his sheer competitiveness for a shot at the Cup, given how close we were in 2011. I get that he may rub people the wrong way, but deep down the dude has a good heart and some of the vitriol towards him the last few years had been uncalled for. He definitely deserves to be honoured by the Canucks.