Player Discussion Morgan Rielly

[NinjaKick]

Why highly paid professional male athletes get married and start raising kids and a family before they retire in their 30's is f***ed up. You see the immediate performance decline in nearly every instance. Geez... how stupid can they be? Yeah, women have a biological clock for this stuff, but not men.

 

[Ports]

I actually noted that Rielly made a mistake there. I just didn't ignore the contributions of the other 4 people on the ice to blame it all on Rielly.

Nobody is denying that Rielly has had his struggles this year relative to the level he has been for years, but the exaggerations are through the roof. No, his stats don't suck. No, his coach doesn't say he sucks. In fact, he gives him the most minutes on the team. What some on this forum think isn't worth a whole lot.

But your view point is ? Usually when someone is in the vast minority of opinions they realize there might be something to what others have to say. Stubbornly clinging to false narratives and dismissing everyone else out of hand says more about you than anyone else. Unless you’re his agent. Then I could understand your position on the player.

 

[Larcos_Unal]

We're pretty lucky the cap going up so fast will make this contract feel more palpable. In 2-3 years the hit will be a lesser percentage of the cap and will be closer to a $5-6M contract today. It still hurts to have this guy eat up precious cap, play bad defence, and produce little offense when you can't afford to go out and pay for depth scoring.

No more excuses, he simply needs to be better.

 

[Dekes For Days]

Usually when someone is in the vast minority of opinions they realize there might be something to what others have to say. Stubbornly clinging to false narratives and dismissing everyone else out of hand says more about you than anyone else.

Being the minority opinion among those venting in a thread on a message board is pretty meaningless. Majority opinions are often wrong, especially when mob mentality kicks in. If anything, given this board's history of evaluating anything properly (especially defense and defensemen), it's supportive of my position.

The only thing I've dismissed are those false narratives. Your opinion doesn't align with the facts or the opinion of the coach.