Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle was (finally) fired on Tuesday morning, ending a mostly disastrous three-year tenure with the team. As the team gathered for media scrums in the locker room on Tuesday afternoon, one reporter – the Toronto Star’s Dave Feschuk – asked Phil Kessel, who has often been made into a scapegoat by the Toronto media, if he thought he was difficult to coach.
Basically, Feschuk asked Kessel if he was a contributing factor to Carlyle getting fired.
As you can imagine, Phil didn’t really enjoy being asked this question and responded by laughing in Feschuk’s face and calling him an idiot. He’s not wrong.
You can check out a transcript of the awkward exchange below, courtesy of Pension Plan Puppets.
Feschuk: It’s been suggested to that you’re a difficult guy to coach is there any truth to that?
Kessel: I don’t think so but that’s a weird question for you to ask on a day like that, you know your coach got fired
Feschuk: Well you’re the best player on the team and if the coach just got fired
Kessel: You think it’s my fault? Is that what you’re saying?
Feschuk: I’m saying that people are saying you’re difficult to coach
Kessel: Is that what you’re saying?
Feschuk: I’m asking a questions, are you difficult to coach?
Kessel: I don’t think so. I play eh. This guy is such an idiot here. He’s always been like that here.
