I'm the exact same. He was a good player and a good partner for Letang, seems like a good enough dude, but that's about it.

The biggest reason I started turning on him started with the Minnesota Sunshine crap and the insistent portrayal of him as this sweet, kind "Minnesota nice" (barf) team mom that stays home and knits, and it's just such a boring archetype. It also doesn't fit actual Paul Martin, who everyone in Pittsburgh knows was a huge partier and playboy.

Good teammate, nice guy, fine hockey player, but I'm more than happy to have a younger, cheaper and IMO better version of him in Brian Dumoulin.