Morgan Rielly

Last Season

Eleven goals and 25 assists in 78 games — 36 points, minus-18, at 21:08 a night with 29 penalty minutes.

His 951st career game and his 549th point. Four hundred and fifty-one career assists.

The Finesse Game

The skating has held up and it is still the best thing about him — he exits his own zone with the puck as well as any defenceman on the roster and joins the rush without hesitation.

Two hundred and twelve unblocked attempts from a median of 45 feet, eleven goals. Ninety-eight goals in 951 career games.

Twenty-five assists is the lowest full-season figure of his career by some distance.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 219, and he does not defend with his body. Twenty-nine penalty minutes.

He loses net-front battles, does not clear a crease, and the defensive reads have been the criticism for thirteen seasons. At 32 the skating no longer covers as much of it.

The Intangibles

Forty-eight point six per cent of the expected goals, 41st percentile, and 48.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 37th, across 1,350 minutes, with the goals 51 for and 67 against.

By the standards of this particular club those are the second-best chance-share figures on the roster, which is the sort of thing that only sounds like praise until you read the rest of the section.

Three points in his last ten. He is 32, the fifth pick in 2012, and has spent fourteen seasons as the longest- serving Maple Leaf on a run of clubs that has won two playoff rounds.