Kesler: Vancouver media "makes up a lot of stories"
/Direct quotes from former Vancouver Canucks centre Ryan Kesler, via Eric Stephens of the OC Register.
On leaving Vancouver: “I think changes needed to be made with the new management coming in and the new coaches. I felt I was stuck in a rut there. I needed a change.
“Talking with management, they were going into a rebuild or that’s what they told me. I just thought it was best to move on.”
On allegations he’s not a good teammate: “I don’t buy that I’m not a good teammate. You can ask any of my teammates. I know when I was traded, if I was such a bad teammate, 95 percent of the guys wouldn’t have texted me.
“That’s the problem with Vancouver. The media makes up a lot of stories that aren’t true. To be honest, I was really sick of certain media guys throwing people under the bus.
“No matter how much my old teammates say it doesn’t bother them. It affects them. It does in that city.”
Kesler did say he "liked most of" the media there.
Source: Eric Stephens, OC Register