'Sometimes maybe I just think a little too much with my heart as opposed to my head.' On Nazem Kadri, and his off-season of uncertainty (lukefoxjukebox)
’s Twitter timeline is a promotional clip for a CBC episode offorward pinned the video there between Game 1 of his club’s freshest series loss in Boston — after he’d set up linemate William Nylander with a brilliant, gutsy long-bomb tape-to-tape breakaway pass through a four-man labyrinth of Bruins — and Game 2, in which he scored a clutch goal, felt wronged by some combination of the officials and Jake DeBrusk, and committed an act so boneheaded, it ended his season five games early and, quite...
"Yes, he likes to defend his teammates and he plays very hard and things of that nature, but we need him to be available," Dubas said. Kadri’s coach, Mike Babcock, brought him up unprompted in the moments after another Game 7 defeat, wondering if a more disciplined Kadri would have given him flexibility to put William Nylander in better situations to score.
"Sometimes maybe I just think a little too much with my heart as opposed to my head. That’s something I’m going to fix, and I can assure this isn’t going to happen again. The 28-year-old has three more seasons remaining on a cap-friendly, front-loaded deal that carries a $4.5 million annual hit.
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