Injury Report: Morgan Rielly out 8 weeks with a fractured foot

[leburn98]

I love how some are writing the season off because of Rielly's injury. If anything, this injury opens the door for Sandin and Ljilgren to show the Leafs what they have. Reality is, sometimes you don't know what you have until you are forced to use it.

 

[Advanced stats]

It's not as bad as some are making it out to be, though it's a huge loss. Rielly is no marvel defensively, and our offense can take the hit without blinking.

1. This is a last chance for Barrie to step it up and try and earn a payday from some team. The door is open, and he's gotta step up.

2. With next week being our bye-week, we only have 3 more games until muzzin is probably back. That gives us a cobbled top pairing of muzzin and Barrie, which while not great, shouldn't be an excuse.

3. This is a chance for Sandin and Liljeren to show what they got. Sandin was great in 6 games early in the season, and Liljeren is even more ready imo.

4. This is a much needed rally call for a team that is half asleep in their own end. I can only hope they look in the mirror after getting blown out and losing their best defenseman, and pull their socks up and get to work.

In 4 games when Muzzer is back I'd like to go with..

Muzzin- Barrie
Dermott - Holl
Sandin - Liljeren
Marincin

 

[Clark4Ever]

Rielly was underachieving, but still, another massive blow.

Time to man up.

 

[AvroArrow]

Well f***. We cant catch a break

 

[stickty111]

Some adversity for this team might be good. The week break is coming at a good time to get Muzzin back. Man do we ever need him now.
I expect Lilly to be up here soon.

 

[sxvnert]

He should be calling up both Sandin and Lili.

 

[mikeyz]

Yeah, we’re not making the playoffs...

Have you seen the way Rielly has played?

He won't be the difference between us making the playoffs or not.

 

[stickty111]

It also is a huge upgrade. Come on Kyle trade Ceci ASAP.

 

[Kiwi]

Some adversity for this team might be good. The week break is coming at a good time to get Muzzin back. Man do we ever need him now.
I expect Lilly to be up here soon.

We need Andersen to sort himself out, he can keep our head above water with a depleted lineup but he's got to be better than he has recently

A team can only defy so much adversity

 

[SeaOfBlue]

I like how people think we are done after this injury. We aren't because the injury came at a good time. We play three more games before we get a week off, and we should be able to win 2/3 without Rielly this week. Just need to show up...

After the break, Muzzin should be back and we are pretty much back in the same spot we have been in the past couple of weeks when we went without him, except we lose Rielly (who wasn't even 100% anyways) instead.

If this team keeps working and giving it, and the goalies start getting back on track, we will continue winning.

 

[Advanced stats]

Leafs are in deep doodoo. Panthers are gonna pounce over them now. Reilly is a beast.

Thanks for your support you bruins fan.

 

[JustJokinenAround]

we suspected he might have had something, this is probably it. if we don't score 7 a game its going to be tough to win

 

[LeafsNation75]

 

[member 300185]

That's what happens when your GM builds from the forwards back instead of from the goalie out.

Before you make a blanket statement like that you should look at every player in the roster and then make a decision. Because once you do that you realize that most of the team had nothing to do with Dubas.

 

[Menzinger]

Teams have adjusted to our all out attack and as such are starting to shred our D.

If the Leafs goalies had out up average sv% during some of these losses, the teams recent record wouldnt be so bad.

 

[Menzinger]

While it sucks, hes looked pretty bad for a lot of this season.

Maybe the rest will give him more time sort himself out

 

[sxvnert]

Hence why I would move Barrie for assets, plug in Lily and let it ride.

It has to be done at this point. They'll need both for the playoffs anyways.

 

[member 300185]

No worries. This is good news. Now there will be a trade. We will bring in at least a 2nd pairing D. Then when everyone is healthy, Marincin will be sent down and our D will be upgraded.

 

[LeafsNation75]

If the Leafs goalies had out up average sv% during some of these losses, the teams recent record wouldnt be so bad.

If Andersen doesn't fall behind the net on the 1st goal against Winnipeg or allows a shorthanded goal on the 2nd goal against later in that same game, chances are the Leafs end up winning. Hell if he was able to save the last shot in the 3rd round of the shootout they also end up winning.

 

[Resistance]

When the Leafs go 5-20 without Morgan, should set him up nicely for his $12M ask in a couple years.

 

[sxvnert]

Dermott Barrie
Sandin Holl
Marincin Ceci

 

[CelticDruid]

We weren't going to go far with this D anyway, maybe they will make a trade now.

 

[Menzinger]

The amount of teams that are able to shrug off the loss of TWO top 4 D men easiky is essentially zero. I dlmt.know why some people are acting like this is something the team could have prepped for.

They literally just called up a bluechip prospect to fill the hole - if thats not depth, what is?

 

[Mikeyg]

I look at it like this right, his play has been poor for about 2 months now, lets get sandin playing in the top 4 and just ride with it. 44 has been a turnover machine lately, maybe this will help rebalance things as sandman will be a bit more cautious

 

[Nylanderthal]

This explains why he’s been dreadful and below replacement level defensively. Hopefully he comes back healthy in time to make a positive impact this season