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He's going to have one of his best seasons this year. Even if he isn't, this is the absolute worst time to trade him.

He's not cooked. He's just not great defensively. But the whole team was trash under Biff. He's a good player, going to get a fresh start under the new regime, with much better players around him. Stay the course.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
He's going to have one of his best seasons this year. Even if he isn't, this is the absolute worst time to trade him.

He's not cooked. He's just not great defensively. But the whole team was trash under Biff. He's a good player, going to get a fresh start under the new regime, with much better players around him. Stay the course.
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Eh, he might just be cooked and this might be the last year you can trade him.

I dont think it's reasonable to blame everything bad thats happened last year on Berube and his system. He's a giant part of it, the biggest even, but he's being used as a scapegoat a little.

Rielly was always abysmal defensively but no one cared cause he made up for it on the other side of the puck, but if that part has regressed enough, then he simply might be unplayable, and soon to be untradeable. It would be malpractice to not consider moving him.
 
No, it would not be malpractice to keep a mobile D who could easily get 60+ points from the blueline under a proper system.

You can't blame everything on Biff, but there's also plenty of blame to go around for Tre and his imbecilic roster construction and unprecedented injuries that had the team hobbled all year, and then the deletion of key depth at the deadline with 20 games to go that turned the team into pure sludge.
 
I could be convinced either way when it comes to either keeping or trading Rielly.

But if trading him means taking back a bad contract, retaining salary and/or coughing up assets to convince a team to take him, then I land firmly on the side of keeping him.
 
I think it really depends on how much they can upgrade by trade or free agency.

unless there are multiple major additions this summer.. despite how much he utterly sucks without the puck on his stick, Rielly still has skills this blueline is woefully short of at present

problem is too though the longer you go the greater chance you're stuck with the whole remaining deal, as further decline is obviously coming
 
LeafOfFaith said:
No, it would not be malpractice to keep a mobile D who could easily get 60+ points from the blueline under a proper system.

You can't blame everything on Biff, but there's also plenty of blame to go around for Tre and his imbecilic roster construction and unprecedented injuries that had the team hobbled all year, and then the deletion of key depth at the deadline with 20 games to go that turned the team into pure sludge.
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Pfft easily, you twit
 
Habspatrol said:
Which of the top 5 do you think might trade their pick for Rielly?
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just trying to gauge what a top 5 pick is worth and compare to what a Rielly on the market is. We could trade for a player, trade for prospects, trade for a draft pick. Of course this is just if the leafs are set on it as per rumours. Personally I think they need to add puck moving dmen, but imagine freeing up the cap space and then getting the next best defender at top 5 or whatever
 
Best guess on what Rielly's value is would be something similar to what Faulk was traded for. Mid to late round 1st + ~3rd + rando misfit toy prospect of our choice.
 
My only issue with Rielly, aside from requiring a very specific type of defence partner, and not being very physical, and not having much of a shot --- is that he's really pretty meh on the powerplay.

Love the guy, but he's cooked IMO.
 
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