Reilly’s been a liability in our own end all season and his offence isn’t going to be missed. This is actually going to work out for us. Mark my words.
Injury Report: Morgan Rielly out 8 weeks with a fractured foot
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.... all .... all his trades have been for d-men? He’s literally traded for 3 d-man in the lineup.
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And our 4th line plays 3 minutes a night. Might as well play as many defensemen as we can to see who can play and who can not. Imagine Dermott, Sandin, Marincin, Liljegren, Holl, and Kivihalme showing that they can play better than Ceci and Barrie. If we were to play with 8 defensemen and give them all the same usage we would know very quickly who the weaklinks are and would be able to move on at the deadline.We barely have 6 NHL ready dmen without Muzz and Rielly
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The top 2 picks in the last 3 drafts...5 of 6 of them were dmen. Kokkonen Sandin Durzi Ransanen Liljegren.
The last top tier trades were for dmen.
He had a hand in picking Dermott and Liljegren.
What the hell more should he doing.
Lol
The Dubas hate is honestly the strangest thing ever in leaf fandom. People change reality to for some reason hate on a guy who’s barely been in the job.
My guess is that he's been playing through pain all season, and that the Florida debacle is the straw that broke the camel's back.
Better that he rest, heal and come back healthy and effective, whenever that might be.
It could be an early start to the golf course season for this group anyway. If they should happen to make the playoffs so much the better, but I wouldn't be counting on much from Reilly even then. Plan for next year for him, anyway.
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Except why play one of the worst ones on his offside. Probably something he's never done. We still have 3 LHD in Dermott, Marancin and Sandin. As bad as Marancin is, he's still probably better than Ceci playing his off-side.
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It was atrocious before he took over.
He traded for 2 top Dmen in Muzzin and Barrie what more do you want?
No team has the depth to cover for their top 2 Dmen getting injured long-term
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We'll find out if Rielly has been as bad a some of us think.
I am on the fence on how much this impacts the team... honestly. Hope I am wrong in a way, but he's been terrible all season in critical moments.
I think they can over come it, and he comes back refreshed and not sucking.
I am on the fence on how much this impacts the team... honestly. Hope I am wrong in a way, but he's been terrible all season in critical moments.
I think they can over come it, and he comes back refreshed and not sucking.
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It's insanity to even think we could miss the playoffs with our salary cap situation. All these top earning forwards and we might miss the playoffs? We're going to make it, too much talent not to.
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If only that's how it worked eh?
With both Muzz and Riels out its gonna be tough.
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Great chance to see what kind of character this team has. Obviously Rielly hasn't been himself all season, and this prolonged period of time should allow him to rest his foot, and the other nagging injury and hopefully come back 100%.
The team now needs to rally and play through it. Rielly brings a lot to this team 5 on 5, PK, PP. Say what you will about his play so far, someone still has to take those minutes.
If Andersen/Hutch can step up their game and steal a few then we should be able to keep pace. If there is a trade that makes sense (IE moving out Johnsson, Kapanen, Bracco etc) for a good dman then Dubas should pull the trigger. We've seen unexpected contributions from players like Engvall that could make some wingers expendable.
A move I'd try and make:
Johnsson, Ceci, Bracco for Josh Manson & Ondrej Kase + a prospect or pick. Or something based around those assets. Not sure if the Ducks would have interest but sounds like they're listening on players and willing to take salary for assets.
Saves the Leafs some cap room and the Ducks pick up some good assets.
The team now needs to rally and play through it. Rielly brings a lot to this team 5 on 5, PK, PP. Say what you will about his play so far, someone still has to take those minutes.
If Andersen/Hutch can step up their game and steal a few then we should be able to keep pace. If there is a trade that makes sense (IE moving out Johnsson, Kapanen, Bracco etc) for a good dman then Dubas should pull the trigger. We've seen unexpected contributions from players like Engvall that could make some wingers expendable.
A move I'd try and make:
Johnsson, Ceci, Bracco for Josh Manson & Ondrej Kase + a prospect or pick. Or something based around those assets. Not sure if the Ducks would have interest but sounds like they're listening on players and willing to take salary for assets.
Saves the Leafs some cap room and the Ducks pick up some good assets.
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Age and philosophy are where the hate come from IMO.
Age makes people jealous because he has accomplished so much at such a young age.
Philosophy because some think the clutch and grab era of Gretzky's days are still here.
He knows the team weakness and he had been addressing it as aggressively as he can.
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Big contracts can't prevent injury, unfortunately.
But I think they make the playoffs.
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I don't see us making the playoffs without him, more time away might make for a better substitute short term but I don't think it will matter either way. I'm ready to be panic.
While it's true you have a good point re: losing 2 top D, don't think I'm the only one who thinks that our need on D wasn't for a Tyson Barrie.
Of course not saying I know that someone better in our own end was available.
Think Freddy's cold spell has demonstrated that at some point whomever we have/call up/acquire need to play better D, incl fewer turnovers by fwds if we want to make a run?
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this give Dermott a chance to step up and will give the leafs a chance to see if he can elevate his game. Big time chance for him to show he can be more than he has been this year. He will man the 2nd unit i would assume unless they give it to Sandin
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