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Confirmed with Link: Leafs have acquired Ryan O’Reilly, Noel Acciari & Josh Pillar in a three-team trade with STL and MIN

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I want to get pathetically drunk in a bar and bitterly challenge some young Leafs fans to correctly pronounce Pilar's last name.
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Bravid Nonahan said:
They'd be crazy not to.

Bury/buy out guys until you can make it happen. We're a completely different group with him in there. And my opinion will be the same even if we lose the series.

O'Reilly has come out and said how he has been blown away at how great the Leafs organization is, the resources they have. Add the fact that I'm pretty sure his wife is from Scarborough, and his parents live not too far from me, about 2.5 hrs west of Toronto, I'd find it very hard to believe he isn't coming back.
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MLSE probably could use another employee making $2mm in their offices, and Scarborough is not too far to drive ...
 
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Bobby Orrtuzzo said:
Idk what’s gonna happen in the future, but cherish him boys, he’s a f***ing beauty (Acciari too)
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I don't know where or when he got the nickname "The Factor" but he was "The Factor" tonight, tied the game with a minute to go, won the faceoff that ended it.

4 points in 3 games.

We LOVE him, and yes we LOVE Acciari too.
 
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From the television, watching him come back on defense in the dying seconds of yesterday's game you could see him yelling and pointing with his hand, telling his linemates where to go as he was hustling to get himself back and into position.
 
Whatever happens, this is shaping up to be the most impactful move Dubas has made during his tenure. This should be the definitive exclamation mark on Dubas's resume that earns him an extension.
 
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‘The moment never gets too big for him’: How Ryan O’Reilly became ‘The Factor’ for Maple Leafs

O’Reilly has made a career of coming through in the clutch. A skill the Maple Leafs have lacked in big moments in the past.
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“I think in playoffs when it’s so tight, it’s a little bit more of a game of inches than it is in the regular season,” said Matt Duchene, who came into the league with O’Reilly as a fellow teenager with the Colorado Avalanche.

O’Reilly’s work gave him that extra inch when it mattered. “I think that sometimes why you see guys in playoffs have really high numbers like that,” Duchene said, “the cream kinda rises to the top at that time of year.”

There’s a reason they call him “The Factor.”

O’Reilly has made a career of coming through in the clutch. It’s a big part — the biggest part, really — of why the Leafs acquired him in the first place weeks before the trade deadline. They wanted the ultimate playoff performer. O’Reilly has already rewarded their faith. Not only did he punch in the game-tying goal with one minute left in regulation of Game 3. He also cleanly beat Brayden Point on the faceoff that set up Morgan Rielly’s game-winner with 45 seconds left in overtime.

“Overtime, he couldn’t have snapped that back any cleaner,” Duchene noted. “You do that as many times as he does it’s gonna end up in the net at a big moment at some point.”

O’Reilly has points in all three games of the series so far, five in all.



What is it about O’Reilly though that allows him to shine when the lights get brightest? What’s made him the ultimate big-game player in recent NHL lore?

It starts with the work.

A day before Game 1, O’Reilly was again one of the very last players to leave the ice. He set up a pile of pucks in the left faceoff circle. With help from Luke Schenn and Aston-Reese, he worked on controlling the puck along the boards.

When that pile was done, he gathered the pucks and moved them over to the right faceoff circle and did it all over again.
 
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