Rick Tocchet makes his return to Pittsburgh tomorrow, when his Coyotes face the Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, and he’ll no doubt make the rounds in visiting his many friends here.
He’s a good man, a good coach, and it’ll be terrific on a broad scale for people to see him again, including on the video tribute that’ll be shown on big board during the first period. He’s genuinely loved and missed.
But now that I’ve offered that much, it’s also now fair, I feel, to point out that Phil Kessel’s fared just fine without him.
Remember all that fuss over the summer when Tocchet took the head coaching job with Arizona?
How Kessel was going to fall apart without him?
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