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Morgan Rielly
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
Fifty-one assists in 72 games, and 392 in a career of 791.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 | TOR | 73 | 2 | 25 | 27 | -13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 2.1 | 17:38 |
| 2014-15 | TOR | 81 | 8 | 21 | 29 | -16 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 5.4 | 20:20 |
| 2015-16 | TOR | 82 | 9 | 27 | 36 | -17 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 167 | 5.4 | 23:14 |
| 2016-17 | TOR | 76 | 6 | 21 | 27 | -20 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 171 | 3.5 | 22:10 |
| 2017-18 | TOR | 76 | 6 | 46 | 52 | -4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 182 | 3.3 | 21:36 |
| 2018-19 | TOR | 82 | 20 | 52 | 72 | +24 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 223 | 9.0 | 23:07 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 47 | 3 | 24 | 27 | +6 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 123 | 2.4 | 24:12 |
| 2020-21 | TOR | 55 | 5 | 30 | 35 | +11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 5.0 | 23:37 |
| 2021-22 | TOR | 82 | 10 | 58 | 68 | +16 | 40 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 221 | 4.5 | 23:44 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 65 | 4 | 37 | 41 | -9 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 126 | 3.2 | 21:42 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 72 | 7 | 51 | 58 | +7 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 173 | 4.0 | 23:44 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 791 | 80 | 392 | 472 | -15 | 229 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1731 | 4.6 | 22:12 |
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
72 games, 7 goals and 51 assists for 58 points, 1 on the power play, 27 penalty minutes, 23:44 a night and plus-7. He took 50.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,398 minutes, the 53rd percentile, and his ice went 77-66 against an expectation of 61.89-61.66.
Fifteen goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and four more conceded than they called for. Seventy-seven goals for in 1,398 minutes is the most of any defenceman on the club and it came on a chance share of almost exactly half.
The Finesse Game
237 attempts at a median of 41 feet with 52 per cent of them from beyond forty and 13 per cent from inside twenty, 168 of those on goal, converted at 4.1 per cent against a career 4.62 across 1,731 shots.
392 career assists against 80 goals in 791 games. He carries the puck out of his own end and joins the rush rather than supporting it, and a forty-one-foot median attempt says he walks well inside the line before he shoots — the shot is a decoy and the pass is the play.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 219 and took 27 penalty minutes.
229 career penalty minutes in 791 games is a low total for a defenceman playing twenty-four minutes a night. He is solidly built but does not defend by contact; the gap is closed with feet and there is not much net-front work in his game.
The Intangibles
Fifth overall in 2012 by Toronto, eleven seasons, one organisation, and 472 points in 791 games.
A career minus-15 across eleven seasons on one club. He is 30, he played twenty-three and three-quarter minutes a night, and 51 assists is a very large number from a defenceman at any age.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,398 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.1%
- 54th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.3%
- 57th 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: 77 for, 66 against. Expected: 61.9 and 61.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 22 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 75 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1398 minutes at five-on-five
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
- TOR took 52.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.1% — 2.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,398 minutes at five-on-five — 94th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| TJ Brodie | 48.6% | 52.1% | 50.5% |
| Auston Matthews | 52.6% | 48.6% | 59.6% |
| William Nylander | 51.0% | 49.6% | 53.3% |
48.6% together, 52.1% for him apart and 50.5% for Brodie apart. He was better away from Brodie, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Brodie.
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
237 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 13% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 52% from beyond forty.