Player Discussion Morgan Rielly

[shaner8989]

He’s been terrible this season. Give it time. That said he needs to wake the f*** up. When he’s playing well he’s awesome.

 

[arso40]

Your seeing him playing the top lines on other teams not really the matchup he’s used to

 

[thewave]

Why can't MO and MM make the PP work. Should be the 67,000 question

 

[Community]

First off, my point remains about short term memory. This is the only playoff series where Rielly wasn't one of our best players.

As for this play, almost all of the players on the ice share the fault for allowing that goal (Samsonov and Marner in particular). Rielly didnt anticipate the play, but he's not directly responsible for the goal against. JT was also out of position and didn't apply pressure quick enough on Lindholm which allowed him to line up the dump-in pass. Nylander was also puck watching and not skating.

Marner was with Pastrnak then stopped skating despite having fresh legs and just coming off the bench.

Samsonov could've easily gotten to the puck ahead of Pastrnak (or closed down and give him no room to shoot/deke).

Rielly was stuck puck watching a bit, but that was Marner's man and Samsonov made a poor decision in net. Nothing Rielly can do at that point considering the speed Pastrnak was coming in on the opposite wing whereas if Marner kept pace with him he could've disrupted the play.


Edit: Anyways, I'm pretty sure you already made up your mind and dont seem open to discussion/debate so no point going further. A pedestrian 14 games isn't going to change my opinion on him and as I mentioned he had a fantastic stretch from the 2022-23 playoffs through the 2023-24 regular season which holds more weight to me than the last 14 games (where he's been closer to mediocre than terrible as some people are claiming).

 

[Deez Nuts]

The only D on the team that is a minus player. Overall he is a net negative and a huge black hole.
He is just an atrocious player.