Except Rielly is actually good defensively by all metrics and eye test, meanwhile Barrie is the opposite.
If there was even a single shread of truth to the bull**** you just made up, Colorado wouldnt have retained half his salary and traded a completely serviceable #3C for Kadri.
Can you imagine trading Rielly and Kerfoot for Kadri. LMFAO ****ing morons on this board
Yeah no, most metrics have Rielly as bad to terrible defensively. And I never said that Barrie is equal to Rielly overall. Before you call people moron, try understanding a simple post.
Go check how Rielly's defense looks by RAPM for example. Two standard deviations to the negative. He lead all defenders in expected goals against. He was one of the worst in relative CA, GA, xGA. Other contextualized stats are very unflattering to him defensively as well.
He's a terrific playdriver and one of the best offensively in the league. The reason we don't talk about him like a Burns or Karlsson is opportunity, plain and simple. Barrie, on the other hand, isn't the playdriver that Rielly is. Still absolutely terrific offensively though.