Quoting: gmgb
I get that it's hard to compare defensemen to forwards, but how are Rielly and Forsberg close to equal? Team need aside (Rielly makes no sense for NSH, as they already have two LD better than Rielly), how are they close in either production or defensive ability?
well they put up about the same amount of points, with the exception of riellys injury riddled season 2 years ago, over the last 4 years they have been pretty equal in points
rielly 159 points in 213 games
.74 ppg
forsberg 144 points in 188 games.
.76 ppg
Id say those numbers are close enough to say they are about equal in production.
i didnt include any of the numbers from 2019-2020years numbers because frankly rielly was injured the whole bloody season and played with a hurt wrist and sprained ankle.
They have been about equal in defense over that time, neither being exactly top 10 in defensive stats, with both improving over the last 4 season defensivly. Now im sure you will take this and quickly forget about it because "oh a leafs player being as good as some other player thats total horse****, overrated garbage" Like 90% of all people on here but i hope you will genuinly observe and really think about why 1 might consider them pretty equal.
Also just for reference, while i know he plays a different role to say ekholm is better than rielly is kinda disingenuous, they play different roles
Ekholms production is far far worse then rielly, but i assume hes far better defensivly frankly im unsure of his defensive abilities.
Ekholm 134 points in 277 games
0.48 ppg
rielly is 196 points in 253 games
or 0.77 ppg
62 less points in 24 more games roughly 46% more points in 24 less games.
i mean im sure ekholm is fantastic defensivly but with the exception of the injury filled covid shutdown season, Morgan Rielly has been elite offensivly. And since the injuries he has really pushed to be better defensivly and it showed this year.