How so? All three are good defensively and all of them are 15-20+ goal scorers... and how would you know the line is atrocious if it's never been done before?
Read it wrong. I don’t think the third pairing is that bad, plus I’m not worried about the D pairings either combo works. I mean Benoit - Myers are better defensively then Reilly so having Rielly not playing D is already a huge plus for the D in general.
$9m seems high but you can do it when half your cap does not go to 4 loser forwards and the dman making $7.5m is playing like Justin Holl..
Interesting stat. Rielly has been on for 16 goals scored into our empty net. The core not only sucks 5 on 4 but they also suck 6 on 5.
Most of the time, the core 5. IIRC they have scored twice with their net empty to send games into OT. Marner vs Washington and Holmberg vs Boston. Their record with their net empty is about as good as their playoff series record. Yikes.
Regardless of anyone's play this year, 100% this. I don't care which regular of the 6 on 5 crew you want to pick, but a record this bad in these situations is completely on coaching and not one single player.
As the defensemen your the last line of defence he has been anything but that it’s literally his job to play defence
This is the kind of stuff that makes me wonder why anyone comes here to try to chat hockey (including me). There's next to no rational conversation to be had, everything is just over the top, extreme, zero in between.
