From Hot Dogs to Prime Rib: A Phil Kessel love Story …

"Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast."  – Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) from the movie Pulp Fiction.

If true, then it must follow that hotdogs would be a great meal option for lunch.

I bring this up because earlier this week Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun wrote a piece about Phil Kessel and his lead in was about how a hot dog vendor located near Kessel's condo has now lost his biggest customer.

Somehow, the fact that Kessel regularly consumes a hot dog (actually do we know that it's not a sausage?) for lunch is the underlying premise in his story. Because he ate hot dogs, he became a poison.

— Editor Note: The Simmons’ hot dog story may be entirely fabricated, too.

According to Simmons, "He didn't eat right, train right, play right" and that meant that "The Leafs were sick and tired of Kessel."

He concludes, "What matters is that Kessel is gone. That who he is, what he represents, what he isn't, had to be removed from the ice, from the dressing room, from the road, from the restaurants — from everywhere. They couldn't have him around anymore and be honest about the direction they intend to pursue. Everything they believe in for the future is almost everything Kessel has proven to be lacking in."

Later on that day he visited TSN 1050's Drive with Dave Naylor and attempted to link everyone involved around Kessel as having been fired (beings at the 7:20 mark and goes to 8:25). Starting with Peter Chiarelli, to Brian Burke, to Ron Wilson, to Randy Carlyle and his assistant coaches, to Dave Nonis and finally to the Peter Horachek and his staff all being fired. Stating that Kessel was the common thread, the poison that got them all.