Quoting: oneX
My concerns about the D coming into this season were pretty big based on what was being said about Barrie by analysts and nothing I've seen has calmed those concerns.
Analysts were saying Barrie is Gardiner-lite...so far, that's about spot on.
Rielly: I (amoung others) thought he was on his way to becoming a top point producing D while being slightly above average defensively. With not having Hainsey, Rielly has looked terrible at times. That makes me think Hainsey had more to do with Rielly's success than I (or anyone) really thought.
Rielly needs to be better defensively, case closed.
Ceci has his good monuments and bad ones. Overall better than I expected.
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@Bcarlo25 your opinions guys?
Ceci is better than Hainsey, that doesnt mean I'm saying Ceci is good.
Barrie off to slower start than I thought.
Fact, this D has played 12 games together and all pairs are different from last season.
Dermott will slowly make this D look better by bumping Ceci to bottom pair.
Rielly, I never that he was top shelf material.
He was always a notch below due to his lack of defensive game, so far this season it's very much visible.
Holl and Ceci should be the bottom pair D once Dermott is back and as long as Barrie finds his game we will get better.
If you switch all pairs on D for any team this kind of result is likely to think anything else is silly.
They need to learn to play together which will take time.
Babcock staying or going, it's not looking good but I'd bet money that managment will show more patience with him then us fans.
Hes been here since 2015, at least 2 years was rebuild, I would not be surprised even a little if they gave him 2 years including this year to show what he can do.
Next year for sure that seat his will start to get warm.