Until he shows his coach that he shouldn’t take him out it’ll continue to be like this he’s better than Timmins but at 2 mill more he has to show the clear separation on a nightly basis he has to play aggressive he can’t just rely on skill not with this coach
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We always seem to match up well against the Rags for some reason so I’m expecting a win.
Real tests will be the usual suspects of Boston and Florida or any team with a heavy forecheck.
Real tests will be the usual suspects of Boston and Florida or any team with a heavy forecheck.
He’s good defensively and he’s good offensively he’s a good two way defencemen he needs to be more physical and aggressive in a line up like this unfortunately he won’t shine until someone like Rielly isn’t in the line up and defensively he’s the least physical but he’s not a bad defender at all your not seeing well if you think that
His career high in points is 23 how is he good offensively?
How is he good defensively? He's never been able to stick in the playoff lineup, and now he can't even get into the regular season lineup over Conor Timmins, if he was as good defensively as you claim Conor Timmins would not be playing over him.
He's not physical at all so he doesn't bring that.
He was the worst player on the ice against the kings.
You know I use to call Josh Levio Josh "do nothing" Levio because Josh Levio didn't score, didn't hit, didn't fight, didn't block shots, didn't PK, wasn't on the PP, didn't win board battles, Josh Levio literally did NOTHING.
Lilly is the defense version of that.
He doesn't score
He doesn't hit
He doesn't fight
He doesn't block shots
He's not on the PK.
He's not on the PP.
He doesn't win board battles.
He does literally NOTHING except It's worse with Lilly because Levio didn't make 3 million bucks to do literally nothing.
Lilly does he's getting 3 million bucks a year essentially for free.
Maplebeasts
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23 points is good when you’re a defensemen who doesn’t play on the power play and only played 55 games. You said so much here yet proved nothing other than you don’t know what you are talking about. He wasn’t great against the Kings but has played 200 NHL games, most of which where he was statistically a very good player. It’s not really his fault Keefe was idiot enough to play Lyubushkin over him. This organization has proven itself incompetent at developing defensemen.
It’s ridiculous how much rope management and coaching has given to veterans who underperform like Holl, Brodie last year, Lyubushkin vs giving promising young dmen minutes and giving them a chance to grow. It happened to Sandin, it’s happening to Liljegren and it’s going to happen to Niemela.
This team has no future on the blue line because all of our defensemen are either aging or can’t move the puck worth shit. Add in a coach and GM who are size queens that appear to love physicality over actual skill and this team’s window is going to close the second Tanev falls off.
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Maplebeasts
I See Demons!!!!!
We have Benoit and Hakanpa when he’s healthy.
You should be. Timmins sucks balls and has been far and away a worse defensemen over their entire careers to date.
Maplebeasts
I See Demons!!!!!
He is the only one out of the three that played well when he got top 4 minutes. It’s going to be a sad day when this team trades him for peanuts and he goes on to be a top 4 defensemen for an org that isn’t deathly afraid of playing young defensemen.
