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im sure others will say this as well but that never stopped me before; morgan rielly is like a carbon copy of quinn hughes, he is the opposite of what the leafs need on defense, AND he plays the wrong side. if anything toronto should be looking to grab a right handed defenseman who is ELITE defensively to play with black ho' mo. im a strong proponent of switching rielly and marner at least to see what happens (marner is better defensively and mo can surely hold his own as a winger) & maybe then this makes sense but even in that case paying this much (cap hit AND assets) for what would end up being your second pair LD is a little crazy for a team in TOR's cap sitch. blowing off all the assets is also iffy considering the future of this team five years down the road is a big ? there is no guarantee that he leaves but AM34 to ARI (or anywhere else) is a real possibility & with the cap hardly going up this offseason bunting & sammy have effectively priced themselves out of this city barring a gio style team friendly deal. WIlly is also up for a big raise sooner rather than later & gio wont be on league min forever. i could go on and on but i think everyone gets the point lol basically they should do the opposite of this IMO.