Quoting: GladeBang12
Rielly is not a 10-15 goal scorer tbh. And klingberg might be the only defencman in the league that’s worse at defence than Rielly.. having two of those kind of players on the same blue line is a recipe for disaster. We literally did it in 19-20 with Barrie. There’s no angle at which this signing isn’t a disaster. I want management to answer. There has to be a reason.
See this is entirely not true. The reason Barrie didnt work here is for one our defensive depth sucked and second Babcock didnt know how to use him
Our blue line had Ceci, an injured Muzzin, and Dermott on the team. Now we got upgrades over all 3 (well maybe besides Muzzin but whateves)
If we look at Carolina they have 2 offensive Dman and they are doing just fine.
Toronto need's offense as in the playoffs defense wasnt the issue a lack of SCORING was as they scored 2 goals a game after R1 u think they going anywhere with that no
McCabe, Brodie, Giordano, and Holl can handle the defensive responsibilities while Rielly and Klingberg provide the offense
And if we get playoff Reilly in the reg season 0 issue as he was good both ends and yes this guy can put up 10 + goal seasons if healthy hes already done it twice