Kudo Shinichi
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- Apr 20, 2012
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Rielly faces top competition and gets tons of ice time at even strength and is our powerplay quarter back, if you can avoid burning him out his minutes by not making him kill penalties too, there is no reason why you shouldn't. Guarantee if this game was not a gongshow penalty wise, he has the most minutes played.
Game 4, there was only 1 penalty total and it was to the bruins.
Gardiner ended up playing 2 more minutes than Rielly.
Also,
Game 1: Rielly 5th in ice-time among the leafs D
Game 3: Rielly 4th
Game 5: Rielly 3rd
The only game Rielly had the most minutes played was in game 2.
You can't convince the others and me that Rielly is a #1D when the coach clearly doesn't play him like one.
If the leafs had some other good defenseman sure, but Polak and Zaitsev playing more than Rielly? Really?
I guarantee you that if Babcock had Weber, Burns, or Carlson, it wouldn't be close in ice-time vs the rest of the leafs d-corps.