Emphasis on defensemen part 2

The writing is on the wall that Morgan may not be today, but if nothing else in another season or two, not a first liner or at least needs to play with a very good shut down dman. Leafs need to look ahead and prepare for that. McCabe is not a 2nd liner either, he's a solid #5.

We just witnessed how quickly a defenceman in his mid 30's can fall off a cliff with Brodie. The answer to most on here is to give Demello and Walker their biggest ever contracts. When they are going to be 30 and 31 respectively. No lessons are ever learned on this site.

Rielly will never get the respect he deserves due entirely because of the crest on his jersey. Leaf hate is ridiculous on this site.

Or A) realize Rielly gives up defensive position in effort to drive the zone and join the offense and needs a top 10 shut down defender to play with, or B) he simply is showing he's past his peak this season.

A certain amount of risk/reward has always been the case with Rielly, but the Leafs have done him no favors with defensive partners to limit the risk with Rielly and to let him flourish

So what you are saying is he needs an actual partner. Not Lybushkin, or Brodie, or (insert the long list of 3rd pair plugs he's been forced to play with his entire career). This just proves your negative bias. Somehow being forced to carry terrible partners makes him eh? Lybushkin must be hurting so much having to play with Rielly eh?