Mike Reilly
New York Islanders Defense
One hundred and four career assists against 18 goals, and a fourth-round pick's ninth season.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | MIN | 29 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3.7 | 12:05 |
| 2016-17 | MIN | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 5.3 | 12:23 |
| 2017-18 | MIN/MTL | 57 | 2 | 16 | 18 | -5 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3.1 | 14:58 |
| 2018-19 | MTL | 57 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 3.0 | 18:41 |
| 2019-20 | MTL/OTT | 44 | 1 | 15 | 16 | -6 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 1.2 | 18:01 |
| 2020-21 | OTT/BOS | 55 | 0 | 27 | 27 | +5 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 0.0 | 19:16 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 70 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -1 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 135 | 3.0 | 18:57 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 | 16:44 |
| 2023-24 | FLA/NYI | 61 | 6 | 18 | 24 | -1 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 126 | 4.8 | 17:10 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 400 | 18 | 104 | 122 | -11 | 162 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 668 | 2.7 | 17:11 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
61 games, 6 goals and 18 assists for 24 points, 1 shorthanded, 30 penalty minutes, 17:10 a night and minus-1. He took 53.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 938 minutes, the 79th percentile, and his ice went 37-39 against an expectation of 40.60-35.25.
Four goals of scoring that did not arrive and four more conceded than the chances called for. A 79th-percentile chance share is the best of any defenceman on this roster and it came from a third pairing.
The Finesse Game
168 attempts at a median of 54 feet with 76 per cent from beyond 40, 126 on goal, converted at 4.8 per cent against a career 2.69.
104 career assists in 400 games against 18 goals. Six goals is a career high by two and it will not repeat. He skates the puck out of trouble and finds the outlet, and it is the only reason a fourth-round pick has played four hundred games.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 191 and does not defend with contact at all.
162 career penalty minutes in 400 games is a low rate. He does not clear the crease, does not win many walls, and is moved off pucks by forwards who are stronger.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2011 by Columbus, out of Glenview, Illinois, three years at Minnesota, nine seasons across five organisations, and 122 points in 400 games.
He is 31 and is on his fifth club. The chance share says he should play more than seventeen minutes and the defending says why he does not.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
53.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 47.8% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.7, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
62% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 97th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He skates the puck out of trouble and finds the outlet, and it is the only reason a fourth-round pick has played four hundred games.”
“104 career assists in 400 games against 18 goals.”
“He is 6-2 and 191 and does not defend with contact at all.”
“He does not clear the crease, does not win many walls, and is moved off pucks by forwards who are stronger.”
“He does not clear the crease, does not win many walls, and is moved off pucks by forwards who are stronger.”
“He does not clear the crease, does not win many walls, and is moved off pucks by forwards who are stronger.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 938 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.9%
- 62nd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 37 for, 39 against. Expected: 40.6 and 35.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 60 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 62 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 61 games
- Top speed
- 21.5 mph
- 44th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.69 a game
- Distance
- 2.51 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 99.0 mph
- 90th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 910 minutes at five-on-five
- Sebastian Ahooff the roster40%
- Ryan Pulock13%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 4.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 938 minutes at five-on-five — 51st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sebastian Aho | 52.6% | 54.1% | 48.1% |
| Mathew Barzal | 61.7% | 49.4% | 50.3% |
| Bo Horvat | 60.3% | 50.4% | 51.2% |
52.6% together, 54.1% for him apart and 48.1% for Aho apart. Aho was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Aho than for him.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
168 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 41 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.