CapspaceKiller
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Checks all around.Can someone help me remember a team that did well in teh playoffs with someone like Rielly as their 1D?
Can't shoot on the PP
Can't make smart plays/passes on PP
Telegraphs every freakin pass
Can't play body
Can't play 2 on 1
Can't clear the crease
WTF
To me he is progressing towards Tyson Barrie
Took less than market?! No team in the league would give him 7.5. None.
On many teams NO dman gets more than 5. And there are dudes much better than Rielly.
He can't shoot, can't defend. What we are paying 7.5 for? Points? There is always somebody picking up points on a bad team.
This contract is unmovable. All Dubas contracts are terrible. But this... He is giving out money like a simp.
Yeah, he's actually 23rd. on the payscale for defensemen.You're underestimating the competency of a lot of NHL GMs.
Game 6 last time we played Boston it was the Reilly show all 3rd period. Puck was on his stick all period. Forwards let him down not finishing.How many games do you think the Bruins allow him to do that ??
He’ll be on Robidas island soon.Committing long term to Rielly might be this regimes biggest mistake.
Can someone help me remember a team that did well in teh playoffs with someone like Rielly as their 1D?
Can't shoot on the PP
Can't make smart plays/passes on PP
Telegraphs every freakin pass
Can't play body
Can't play 2 on 1
Can't clear the crease
WTF
But galaxy brain Dubas extended him along with a NMC. Dubas & everyone need to be canned. I said as nauseum (for years now) this guy was fool's gold and got lots of backlash for it. People forget his mentor was the PYLON himself Phaneuf....this guy is the 2nd coming..a shrewd NEW GM will do the right thing & trade his ass somewhere....
On paper, I would have taken Ekholm over Rielly and just use Sandin in the Rielly role. Rielly is a liability defensively when he's not on his game. I like Sandin's decision making on the powerplay a bit more and he seems to have better positional awareness on defence. I'm not surprised he had 3 points in his first game with Washington. I like his toolbox better.Rielly’s new deal is fair for what he typically has been. He didn’t press for Nurse-like money.
That being said he has not been typical this year, definitely a down year and struggles. Not the first player to have a down year, especially after signing a big contract.
That being said he’s fully capable of rebounding. So the overreactions are a bit much. Look at Nylander and Marner, they had similar post big contract struggles. The thought the Leafs should have dealt them then is a bit silly now in hindsight. This extends to Matthews too.
But the argument of should they have re-signed him or restructured the D-core is another topic. The idea of a subpar defensive D-man that relies on skating holding up into his 30’s is risky.
But at least Barrie is decent on the PP. Rielly is atrocious at everything except skating with the puck between bluelines. Once inside the defensive or offensive zone he is useless. The guy has such low IQ, has no understanding of positioning or gap control, brings zero physical elements and can’t even shoot. The team just bleeds goals when he is on the ice. He was -3 again last night. You just can’t have players like this play 20 plus minutes a night and expect to win. The only way to get rid of him at this this point is for the fan base to turn on him and give him the Larry Murphy treatment. But this will never happen, the majority still think he is a top pairing quality defender who is on a bargain contract. I’ve been a Leaf fan for 40 plus years and have never seen a player so overrated. 8 Mo years of this oh man.
Yes, you have! His name was Phaneuf....Reilly's mentor .....Reilly, the new Phaneuf.
I don't know if it's an "again" thing. I don't think he ever recovered from that original injury.I am pretty sure he is hurt again, The drop in his game reminds me of 19-20 when they told us nothing and he looked like he was towing a piano around but they didn't sit him until he broke his foot in January and they had no choice.
I am pretty sure he is hurt again, The drop in his game reminds me of 19-20 when they told us nothing and he looked like he was towing a piano around but they didn't sit him until he broke his foot in January and they had no choice.
They acquire a 20:00 a night offensive LD in the Sandin deal and don't flip him at the deadline even though they have Mo, McCabe and Gio on the left? It fits too well. Classic decision on losing him for the season with surgery or limping him through. Even if you hate his game, you have to admit he has an established level of play in the last 6 seasons but this year and 19-20 look way out of place.
Its not a pass for him, his game is what it is, but last year's much better Reilly isn't dead, its just a question of when he shows up again.
More importantly though, why is Morgan Reilly?