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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It’s the perfect example of not judging team performance on an individual player.
I’ll be honest and when the Blues were last place in December/January I really questioned O’Reilly as a player.
Seemed like he was poison. He was on his third team, and with him on the roster all the teams were just horrible, and he didn't seem to actively improve his teams at all. At the time the Sabres has just ended their long winning streak too and it looked like they didn’t miss O’Reilly at all.
Now just 6 months later he’s the Conn Smythe winner on a cup winning team.
Good reminder that good players are good players - and don’t let teams performance cloud the judgement.
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and in one playoffs ROR's career long reputation has been destroyed. that's pretty cool.
Same sort of thing about Maroon.
I googled maroon info earlier in the playoffs.
tons of articles in December/January saying Maroon was playing so poorly and should be gotten rid of no matter the return. a mistake and a bad signing.
something to be said for management staying the course and not panicking.
Maroon and his son are the people i'm happiest for. Maroon is a really nice (and hard working) guy and deserves the success.