Player Discussion Morgan Rielly

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Timmins has the 4th most points/60 of our D. He's our second best goals against/60 D, while on the ice.

Benoit certainly is physical. He is also the worst of our seven D in possession, expected goals %, is the worst offensive player.

They are both limited players, for different reasons. Benoit is one of our 4 LD, the fourth best. Timmins is one of our 3 RD, the 2nd best. Benoit had a better year last year, but hasn't been good this year.

I’ll take physical in the playoffs over whatever you see in Timmins. He’ll be spinning like a top out there and falling down as soon as the temperature gets dialed up.

 

[TopCheeseShotta]

Not for nothing, but this Tampa game was Morgan's best game in what seems like a century.

Simple, nearly mistake free, a couple good finds and rushes on the O side, and not a single unforced icing!!!! Hahaaaa..

Good for him. Baby steps at this point.

 

[LeafEgo]

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I’ll take physical in the playoffs over whatever you see in Timmins. He’ll be spinning like a top out there and falling down as soon as the temperature gets dialed up.

Agreed, for whatever else they might be I see Timmy carrying a higher likelihood of being a liability and exploited in the playoffs versus Benny.

Ideally Benny sharpens up a bit down the stretch though.

 

[Blanche Blanche]

Not for nothing, but this Tampa game was Morgan's best game in what seems like a century.

Simple, nearly mistake free, a couple good finds and rushes on the O side, and not a single unforced icing!!!! Hahaaaa..

Good for him. Baby steps at this point.

Silver lining of positivity here. Sure. I get it.

But our best defenseman offensively and Defensively - Mccabe, is now playing NOT at 100% his best self on his off side. Bandaid solution here. BIG TIME.

Not a joke when you're talking about playing Florida in a best of 7.
NJ? Caps? Avs? Oilers? Stars?

Mccabe is going to make weaker pass plays because he needs to shelter our 7 Million dollar Dman.
WHAT A JOKE. With 7MIL we can get 2 guys who can play like OEL and we would be better off, and stop cycles much faster and start wearing out teams.

I'm glad everyone's starting to say him being a good guy, good locker room guy bla bla bla isn't good enough. A lot of guys have babys and still play fine FFS. Not an excuse. Millionaires can get another silent room FFS.Pasta just had one and he kicked our asses every year.

ITS NOT WORKING.

Time for management to grow a pair after 9 years and make some real moves. We aren't winning anything by sheltering 7 million dollars for a -14 dman.

 

[TopCheeseShotta]

Silver lining of positivity here. Sure. I get it.

But our best defenseman offensively and Defensively - Mccabe, is now playing NOT at 100% his best self on his off side. Bandaid solution here. BIG TIME.

Not a joke when you're talking about playing Florida in a best of 7.
NJ? Caps? Avs? Oilers? Stars?

Mccabe is going to make weaker pass plays because he needs to shelter our 7 Million dollar Dman.
WHAT A JOKE. With 7MIL we can get 2 guys who can play like OEL and we would be better off, and stop cycles much faster and start wearing out teams.

I'm glad everyone's starting to say him being a good guy, good locker room guy bla bla bla isn't good enough. A lot of guys have babys and still play fine FFS. Not an excuse. Millionaires can get another silent room FFS.Pasta just had one and he kicked our asses every year.

ITS NOT WORKING.

Time for management to grow a pair after 9 years and make some real moves. We aren't winning anything by sheltering 7 million dollars for a -14 dman.

I hear ya. Not a lot we can do in his case, unfortunately. So ya gotta give Craig a chance to see what he can do with a pretty bad and aging even worse contract situation we're in. If we can get tonight's performance out of him, and honestly - McCabe was stellar too on his off-side - then I guess Chief knows a thing or two, and we all need to hope for the best.

You're right --> The reality is we can't do without a better version of this player than he has shown to date - so we gotta hope he can work through the cobwebs in time to flip a switch for rhe playoffs. Last time he had a good playoff, he stunk in the regular season too - so let's hope it's at least a positive trend here again.

 

[sunstersun]

I hear ya. Not a lot we can do in his case, unfortunately. So ya gotta give Craig a chance to see what he can do with a pretty bad and aging even worse contract situation we're in. If we can get tonight's performance out of him, and honestly - McCabe was stellar too on his off-side - then I guess Chief knows a thing or two, and we all need to hope for the best.

You're right --> The reality is we can't do without a better version of this player than he has shown to date - so we gotta hope he can work through the cobwebs in time to flip a switch for rhe playoffs. Last time he had a good playoff, he stunk in the regular season too - so let's hope it's at least a positive trend here again.

Last time he had a bad regular season(last season) he had a bad playoffs so eh....

I'm just hoping for a clutch playoffs.