yea he is so useless on the pp that he only gets 20 points yearly where every year he is yo-yo’d down for the likes of Barrie,Sandin,Liljegren,muzzin,Brodie and he does better than them all. He’s not great, but the pp not working is more on the 3 amigos and their inability to play powerplay hockey. Matthews can’t make a pass, Marner can’t shot and score on an empty net, And nylander frankly isn’t talented/work hard enough to do either at an elite level. He’s a decent distributor and really good at keeping the line. Our pp should be going through Marner-nylander-Matthews, not Rielly.
No arguments for the pk, he isn’t good enough defensively to play on it.
He was so bad last year he paced for 66 points and had a higher A1/60 than A2/60 (can’t find the totals). Infact that has been true for 5 years (6 including this) where that has happened. So much for secondary nothing assist, even thhough a lot of them are clean zone exits from him
If he stinks, Hamilton is awful, Jones is unplayable, Werenski is bad and many other #1’s are actually #3-4’s in disguise