Is Morgan Reilly a #1 Defenseman?

[Kudo Shinichi]

Rielly faces top competition and gets tons of ice time at even strength and is our powerplay quarter back, if you can avoid burning him out his minutes by not making him kill penalties too, there is no reason why you shouldn't. Guarantee if this game was not a gongshow penalty wise, he has the most minutes played.

Game 4, there was only 1 penalty total and it was to the bruins.
Gardiner ended up playing 2 more minutes than Rielly.

Also,
Game 1: Rielly 5th in ice-time among the leafs D
Game 3: Rielly 4th
Game 5: Rielly 3rd

The only game Rielly had the most minutes played was in game 2.

You can't convince the others and me that Rielly is a #1D when the coach clearly doesn't play him like one.
If the leafs had some other good defenseman sure, but Polak and Zaitsev playing more than Rielly? Really?
I guarantee you that if Babcock had Weber, Burns, or Carlson, it wouldn't be close in ice-time vs the rest of the leafs d-corps.

 

[oooooooooohCanada]

Game 4, there was only 1 penalty total and it was to the bruins.
Gardiner ended up playing 2 more minutes than Rielly.

Also,
Game 1: Rielly 5th in ice-time among the leafs D
Game 3: Rielly 4th
Game 5: Rielly 3rd

The only game Rielly had the most minutes played was in game 2.

You can't convince the others and me that Rielly is a #1D when the coach clearly doesn't play him like one.
If the leafs had some other good defenseman sure, but Polak and Zaitsev playing more than Rielly? Really?
I guarantee you that if Babcock had Weber, Burns, or Carlson, it wouldn't be close in ice-time vs the rest of the leafs d-corps.

Rielly is 2nd behind Gardiner in even strength time on ice per game in the playoffs. He plays 2 mins more at ES than Hainsey per game. Gardiner has always been our big ES guy.

Rielly plays less because he's always matched against the other teams top lines. So he plays less so he can jump out when that other line is out there. Gardiner can play against almost anyone in the league and isn't our matchup guy so Gardiner by default plays more at ES.

Hainsey/Polak/Zaitsev has been our PK group all year. Hainsey almost always plays entire PK. Rielly will jump on if/when Hainsey comes off the ice.

In games where we are on the PK a lot, and not on the PP, Rielly will play a lot less than Hainsey for the reasons listed above.

All metrics show that he is a #1 D.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Rielly is 2nd behind Gardiner in even strength time on ice per game in the playoffs. He plays 2 mins more at ES than Hainsey per game. Gardiner has always been our big ES guy.

Rielly plays less because he's always matched against the other teams top lines. So he plays less so he can jump out when that other line is out there. Gardiner can play against almost anyone in the league and isn't our matchup guy so Gardiner by default plays more at ES.

Hainsey/Polak/Zaitsev has been our PK group all year. Hainsey almost always plays entire PK. Rielly will jump on if/when Hainsey comes off the ice.

In games where we are on the PK a lot, and not on the PP, Rielly will play a lot less than Hainsey for the reasons listed above.

All metrics show that he is a #1 D.

What you described above is not a 1D.
Which other 1D gets the same treatment as Rielly?

 

[Pavels Dog]

Rielly is 2nd behind Gardiner in even strength time on ice per game

All metrics show that he is a #1 D.

 

[ole ole]

It's not often you see someone whiff twice in one post. Kudos.

Seems i was correct on both.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

These poll results just look silly. He doesn't even play the most minutes on a team with an average defense at best. The answer should be overwhelmingly no.

 

[rent free]

Rielly is a bigger version of Krug ...the end

You mean better. Gardiner is a bigger version of krug

 

[The Podium]

What you described above is not a 1D.
Which other 1D gets the same treatment as Rielly?

None, which other coach in the league is as obsessed with match ups as Babcock?

 

[Paul4587]

None, which other coach in the league is as obsessed with match ups as Babcock?

Carlyle
Quenneville

For starters.

 

[The List Of Jericho]

What you described above is not a 1D.
Which other 1D gets the same treatment as Rielly?

He’s also paired with Hainsey who’s old
and you can’t throw him out there for massive minutes...heck it was one of the reasons we lost in the playoffs. He looked run down.