Buds17
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Mo to Left Wing Forward
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You don't change positions like that after almost a decade in the league....
93gilmour93
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Leafblooded
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Amusing but I still don't see why not try it... There's 6 other capable D we can play and odds are Rielly would actually be better than Kerfoot let alone the plugs we play on lines 3 and 4
He was already on the hot seat with a large portion of the base before his injury. Combine that with the fact that the Leafs had an incredible record without him in the lineup and he’s not going to get the benefit of the doubt for having a bad return game.
AlienWorkShop
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ULF_55
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keonsbitterness
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One guy in 60+ years ago is the exception, not the rule.Especially after winning the Norris ... oh sorry, I was thinking Red Kelly!
Blanche Blanche
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Matthews and Marner as Top D pairing is awesome LOL
Like putting Ferraris in the mud, add some chains on the tires and it’ll work out! But they can do soooo much more hahaha
Stephen
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I'd put an asterisk on that. The Leafs seem to try the positionless hockey philosophy with Marner on the blueline on the PP, so it wouldn't be much of stretch if Rielly started playing a little out of position on the PP or they threw him out there in a pinch with the Tavares duo. But it would be unlikely since the status of a 1D going to forward would be tough "politically."
ULF_55
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Goes without saying doesn't it?
Only a few defenders you might ever try it with, or forwards going the other way.
Fedorov of course was a super special player.
It has nothing to do with how it looks "politically". It's just a straight up bad idea, and we have no reason to do it.
Marner moving to the back-end role on the PP - which is more fluid positionally - in a 5-forward unit is very, very different from Rielly playing winger at 5v5.
Why would we move Rielly on the PP? His role already best suits his skillset.
What "pinch" would we be in where shifting Rielly to winger would benefit us? Even if Rielly magically knew how to play a totally different position without the misreads and mistakes that would likely follow, you'd just be decreasing the offensive potential of the 5-man unit if anything.
People need to stop trying to force players out of the position they've played their whole lives.
Hellcat
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If Burns can move to D and be pretty darn good, why not try it? Why cant a D move to fwd and play well? You don't know what you got till you try it. Marner playing D on the PP. It would be interesting to see Mo play along the boards down low deep in the zone, he knows how defenders are goign to play him and he's got a pretty stocky lower body, might be a guy that could play the cycle down low pretty effectively.
Soo.. they want a forward to play d on the PP, we make Rielly a fwd and he plays d on the pp.. problem solved...
Brent Burns says Hello....
Soo.. they want a forward to play d on the PP, we make Rielly a fwd and he plays d on the pp.. problem solved...
Brent Burns says Hello....
Mugzy97
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It sucks thats Mo doesn’t get the respect he deserves. At the end of his career he’ll be one of the best and longest serving leafs defensemen of all time and people can’t even realize how much he helps this team.
...You mean the exception who, despite even having history playing forward, and despite having a playstyle that was a better match for forward than Rielly, was switched back to defense because he was more effective at the position that he, for a reason, had been playing for the majority of his career?Brent Burns says Hello....
notDatsyuk
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In those days you usually had four D playing most of each game, and we already had Horton, Stanley, Brewer, and Baun. That's a tough top four for anyone to crack.Especially after winning the Norris ... oh sorry, I was thinking Red Kelly!
Also, Red was brought in to be a shutdown player, which isn't Rielly's forte.
A better (not great) example would be Wendel Clark or even Ian White.
What?
I think you need to check your facts.
Mo generates a lot of shots from the point and has a knack for getting them through traffic
Hellcat
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Why cant Mo be the exception? Wing is the easiest position to play. I guess the answer is he cant because you say so? Gotchya ... Perhaps people should check with you before they create a thread, eh?
BTW Burns was drafted by Minny as a RW and converted to D by Lemaire when he hit the pros.
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Hellcat
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If we are talking more recently he's not wrong, last years, year before heat map for Morgan for goals, many are scored is in tight. You'd think as a dman his goals would be considerably more biased from the point, they aren't, odd but true.
Goals yes..
He creates a lot of offense from getting his puck through from the point.
Last year he was 4th in shots by dmen and 42 overall.
But 100% he does not score from the point a lot.
