Edited Apr. 29 at 7:25 p.m.
Quoting: aadoyle
Karlsson would have been the biggest mistake in history lets have 5 double digits oh boy....
Pitts PP finished 15.3% with him on it and they had Crosby, Malkin, etc.
Leafs dont need a QB they need a new ****ing PP coach lul
Boucher has them running at 7% these playoffs.
Should have just gave Spencer Carbery the biggest assistant coach paycheck in NHL history to stay as the PP coach his system worked
Pretty sure the Leafs have the lowest generated offence from the D in the entire playoffs. If I recall the statline correctly I read it was like what a 0.44 points per game or something or 5v5 offence.
Yknow what happens when you have offence from the backend?
Less pressure on the forwards.
Every cup winner has a QB, you cannot argue that.
Makar, Pietrangelo x 2, Theodore if you want too, Montour carried the (if we wanna include them) Panthers backend last year (if it ain’t Ekblad), Sergachev/ Hedman. The list goes on and on.
Heiskanen, Hughes on other contenders, Slavin and Burns (QB), and so on.
Rielly isn’t necessarily a QB, he’s a player I’d want on my team no doubt. But you watch the Leafs play and tell me you enjoy watching that backend move the puck?
It’s embarrassing. It has nothing to do with the PIT powerplay either lmfao. That statline is quite literally irrelevant.
ALL the Leafs shots that aren’t from Rielly on the backend are muffins and missing the net.
So Rielly is the only actual D man on their backend but he’s also responsible for hard match ups so he can’t play like a true OFD QB. Which is why, like COL, VAN, STL, CAR, TBL and so, you see teams run a “QB” and then another top pair.
I’m sorry but you cannot sit here and get me to believe dumping Brodie (like PIT did with Petry; not signing Reavo and Kampf and replacing them with Karlsson would have been worse than what you watching.
Even more so this rings true with how pedestrian the Leafs offence looks when Matthews is playing poorly, which we’re seeing right now in this series.
If Matthews isn’t going - the Leafs have looked like Washington almost lol.
Just look at EDM.
They have Ekholm (Rielly), and Bouchard (who would be Karlsson). And we’ve seen how pivotal it’s been for EDM to have a QB and then also a Number 1.
Karlsson would have been the Leafs QB and Rielly would have been their number one, and arguably play better because he wouldn’t have to be the only guy in the backend who knows how to play the puck.