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Morgan Rielly
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
Thirty-four assists and a minus-8, in the least productive full season since he became a first-pair defenceman.
| 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 | TOR | 82 | 7 | 34 | 41 | -8 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 126 | 5.6 | 21:23 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 873 | 87 | 426 | 513 | -23 | 250 | 15 | 1 | 15 | 1857 | 4.7 | 22:08 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
7 goals and 34 assists in 82 games — 41 points at 21:23 a night, minus-8, with only 21 penalty minutes on 126 shots.
49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 47th percentile, across 1,439 minutes — the most on the roster. His ice went 56-56 against an expectation of 56.79-57.17. The ice of the club’s most offensive defenceman came out level with the chances at both ends, which is the least interesting thing that could have happened to it.
The Finesse Game
126 attempts at a median of 43 feet with 56 per cent from beyond 40 — a lower perimeter share than most defencemen, because he joins the rush.
34 assists is the reason he plays and it is a considerable number for a season in which his ice scored 40 goals at five-on-five. He carries the puck out of his own zone rather than passing it out, and under a forecheck he escapes rather than chipping it.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 219 and he does not play a physical game. He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.
21 penalty minutes in 82 games at twenty-one minutes a night is a very low rate. He defends by skating and by stick position, and the club has paired him with size for most of a decade because of it.
The Intangibles
Fifth overall in 2012 and 873 games and 513 points, all of it here — the longest-serving player on the roster by four years and the only one who was here for the 2013 collapse in Boston.
He is 31 and signed through 2030. Forty-one points is the fewest he has managed in a full season since 2016.
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
60% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 93rd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He carries the puck out of his own zone rather than passing it out, and under a forecheck he escapes rather than chipping it.”
“**34 assists is the reason he plays** and it is a considerable number for a season in which his ice scored 40 goals at five-on-five.”
“He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.”
“He does not clear the front of his own net and he does not finish checks.”
“He defends by skating and by stick position, and the club has paired him with size for most of a decade because of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,439 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.8%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.3%
- 36th 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: 56 for, 56 against. Expected: 56.8 and 57.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 2 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 79th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.80 a game
- Distance
- 3.13 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.8 mph
- 59th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
2024-25 · 1439 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, 2024-25
- The club
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,439 minutes at five-on-five — 96th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Nylander | 49.5% | 50.1% | 51.4% |
| Oliver Ekman-Larsson | 47.1% | 51.5% | 52.4% |
| John Tavares | 50.7% | 49.5% | 47.8% |
49.5% together, 50.1% for him apart and 51.4% for Nylander apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
194 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 56% from beyond forty.