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I find it more funny how fans are screaming to trade Rielly because he doesn't play defence or didn't pass it to Matthews on the OT shot.
Both goals he was on the ice for were breakaways. First one is a guy coming outta the box which is a play every player dreams of but rarely happens. It's not like Rielly can stand beside the penalty box door and wait for Zub to come out. That's a race that no d-man makes when they're at the end of their shift. Then in OT, Marner walks the Sens defence like their peewee tryout level, dishes it back to Rielly, while Hogberg is laying down on the ice and it's only a player in the crease to block the shot. No one in the world is passing that up. It don't matter if Matthews was wide open like he was or not. That's a shooting situation to end the game from an offensive d-man. It got blocked by a player! Props to them. Then Rielly on the back check has his man, Marner gets blown over by Dadonov (who mighta been the guy that blocked the shot) and Marner's laying on the ice as Dadonov takes off on a break away. Where was Matthews? Coming back with a lazy back check that he didn't even try to get back on. So Rielly had a chance to end the game, it gets blocked, covers his man after, is still the first guy back on Dadonov at the end of his shift, looks physically gassed, and they score. How is any of that on Rielly? That's on Marner more for getting blown over and Matthews for not hustling his ass back.
But people on here don't know how to break plays down and talk random sh it like they know the game. I come on here more for the laughs now, but it gets ridiculous some times.