NHL Rumor: Does Morgan Rielly have a future in Toronto? Will he be very suitable for Vancouver?

TSN: Mike Johnson’s first-time up-air radio show on TSN 590 on Toronto Maple Leafs defensive player Morgan Rielly, if he has a future in the team. If he can exempt him from his no-trade clause, will the Vancouver Canucks be interested?

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Johnson: “…. It’s kind of like, I’m not, almost feeling sad, but I’m a little reflective in my head. I hear different people mention it.

Because Morgan Rielly has been a great player and is a great representative of such a great community of leaders for this team, all without trade protection. He obviously established him in Toronto, but I’ve heard the buzz about him and whether he was on the trade bait board and anything else.

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You know, I would love to know if he said explicitly, you know, if you would ask men to give up their trade protections, or you wouldn’t do it because I wonder if that would come close to them too. ”

Host: “Well, that’s an interesting guy, MJ. We’re seeing Morgan struggle for the Maple Leafs. He’s always the longest leaf. He’s been a staunch player on this team for so long, but maybe the changes in the scenery could be organized.

Apparently, he is a Vancouver guy. Obviously, I heard a lot of buzzing people, Vancouver has its own problems.

Johnson: “People fall in love with that, come home, hey, don’t you? Like, because you’re from somewhere doesn’t mean you want to go there. It doesn’t mean they want you. It’s like, it’s not always.

Host: “No, I know, but you know, like Jimmy Rutherford looks, he might be in a trade mood. He’s never shy about getting ahead, rebuilding or reshaping the team. If you know, if you know he’s very open to the fact that Quinn Hughes is.

Johnson: “Well, they have a lot of work to do. Most of them are leading the way. But if they have to admit it, if they admit it completely, Quinn will leave, and it feels like they are a little bit like that. But maybe Adam Foote changed that dynamic.

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So you start to prepare for players to play when they leave. Morgan Rielly isn’t as good as Quinn Hughes, but he’s a left-handed defender. Ice hockey is very good, he does a lot of things that work well, but it’s not that good. Then, yes, maybe there’s a suitable guy out there where you can trade for the players you need and the prospect of Hughes. Then, you know, you also have a Morgan Rielly there, and you can stay competitive while other players are integrated into your team.

Maybe, I just thought, you know, to give up on Morgan Riley, that’s a lot of things. Solve this problem. There are still many terms in this contract.

Now, I’m going to say that, Morgan Rielly is underperforming this year, 100%. I think some people are healthy. Some of them are systems under Craig Berube. Some of his he tries to be diligent and responsible, you know, do what the coach asks for.

But what does he have this year? 36 points, something similar. 38 points. I didn’t even have it, it wasn’t in front of me. Now, he has not played a power game. Therefore, he gave him another 20 strong points, and now he scored 55 or 58 points. This is not scary for someone who wants to produce an offense.

Morgan Rielly’s not stop guard, never, never. So I think if you’re another team, you can look at him and say, “Well, some of them might be a year off. Some of them might be age. That’s what you care about, but some of them are deployment and usage. In our team, he might do something different.”

He went to a team and they needed a guy who did that, he could play in power games, you know, 50, 55 points as a defender, not shabby for the amount he earned. So maybe there is a bigger market out there than you think.

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But it’s strange because he’s never been part of a conversation about the changes that Toronto needs to make. He is always a little bit, not the lead. And now, there is no trade protection. You really didn’t mention it because it’s OK because it’s OK because he can do what he wants to do. But I just heard it mention it a lot and obviously someone was thinking about it, which made me think about it.

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