We don’t really sit down and talk about the nitty gritty details of Phil Kessel as a hockey player very often.
Even if the 33-year old Kessel were to never step foot on the ice in an NHL game again — which, given his impressively-long active iron man streak, is an incredibly unlikely scenario — he’d retire as one of the most decorated American-born hockey players of his generation.
He sits behind only Patrick Kane on the American active player scoring sheet, boasting 904 points over a 1,122 game career so far. He’s a silver medal Olympian, a two-time Stanley Cup champion, and a U18 World Juniors gold medalist.