I love Rielly but the tricky thing is the top PP situation. Are you paying Rielly 6.5 mil to play on your 2nd PP and be mediocre defensively. 6.5 mil just for 5 on 5 offense from the blueline seems like a lot. I think we have to figure out who our top PP d of the future is. Is it Rielly or Sandin? Once that is settled we can figure out where to go from there.
Sandin hasn't surpassed Liljegren, but the team seems to show favoritism towards Sandin
Lol ya I definitely don't have him replacing Rielly! He has a ways to go. Just see him as above Liljegren on the depth chart, seeing as he's younger and has more NHL experience. Coaching staff clearly see something more in him than Liljegren for whatever reasonI'm not quite convinced he is ready. A lot of people have him replacing Rielly already. I'm not even sure he's ready to replace any of the 3 LD I listed.
I won't argue that. Try telling the coaches that though. Or even the majority fan base. He's pencilled in to pretty much every lineup. And by all indications it seems to be trending that way. Id keep Dermott over Sandin personally. I'd get a guy like Oleksiak and play him with Liljegren on the third pairing rather than have Sandin. I'd play Dermott on the second pairing with Muzzin over Holl. However I don't make the calls, and all indications point towards Sandin being an NHLer this coming year
I'm saying if they choose not to play him. They've definitely shown favouritism towards Sandin over Liljegren, yes. That's my point exactly. And I don't want a defence next year with two rookies in Sandin and Lilly. Recipe for disaster. My point was if we aren't going to play the poor guy, we should consider moving him. Right or wrong, you saying he's developed and ready means nothing come puck drop. Point was simply if we aren't going to play him for whatever reason, we should try and get an asset back for him, instead of keeping him in the AHL year after year. If you think he's developed and ready, maybe another GM in the league does too.
For the record, I'm not saying one way or another. I said if we play Sandin over Liljegren, after all this time, maybe we should consider moving him for an asset. Everyone jumping on me like I'm pro Sandin and dislike Lilly haha unless everyone wants to see the coaching staff pick Sandin like they always seem to, and put Lilly on the Marlies yet again. I'm not the one making the coaching decisions. Sandin would appear to have a leg up on a spot based on prior decisions. Not sure how this makes me such a bad guy lol I don't want us to bury Lilly in the minors year after year either, until we get rid of him for a Bracco level return. If we aren't going to play him, we should make a move. For the record, I'm not the one not playing him. I'm not Keefe. And I'm not saying I like Sandin better. I'm simply stating facts.
