People love a good narrative
Currently Barrie and Rielly are killing us so if you play them less in positions less likely to hurt and maybe have them kick in a little offense i think it's a win
Yea, watching Rielly get walked the other night against Boston hurt me bad......as did Ray who kept saying Rielly and Ceci cant allow him to enter the zone. What the hell was Ceci supposed to do there? Those things make a difference though.
Their stats this year pretty much say it all though:
Rielly/Ceci pairing:
OZone starts: 49.15%
CF% 51.30
SCF% 50.69
HDCF% 50.73
xGF% 48.32
GF% 48.78
Ceci without Rielly:
OZone starts: 45.83%
CF% 53.43
SCF% 52.98
HDCF% 55.90
xGF% 53.26
GF% 62.08
Rielly without Ceci:
OZone starts: 55.88%
CF% 49.83
SCF% 49.36
HDCF% 41.28
xGF% 48.17
GF% 26.30
Although Rielly/Ceci as a pairing have faced harder comp than almost any other pairing in the league, Ceci gets a lot of shutdown minutes with Muzzin to push him to the top of the league for QoC.
Look at those goal differentials though...man. Rielly is damn lucky Ceci is having a career year. Ceci is even the only D who has good numbers with Barrie in limited minutes although we know that will never happen...