Reilly Smith
Vegas Golden Knights Right Wing
Forty points across the Rangers and Vegas, and a return to the club he won a Cup with.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 | DAL | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 8:24 |
| 2012-13 | DAL | 37 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 8.8 | 10:55 |
| 2013-14 | BOS | 82 | 20 | 31 | 51 | +28 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 146 | 13.7 | 14:42 |
| 2014-15 | BOS | 81 | 13 | 27 | 40 | +7 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 9.1 | 15:24 |
| 2015-16 | FLA | 82 | 25 | 25 | 50 | +19 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 173 | 14.4 | 18:37 |
| 2016-17 | FLA | 80 | 15 | 22 | 37 | -13 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 160 | 9.4 | 18:21 |
| 2017-18 | VGK | 67 | 22 | 38 | 60 | +31 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 162 | 13.6 | 17:55 |
| 2018-19 | VGK | 74 | 19 | 34 | 53 | +13 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 178 | 10.7 | 18:16 |
| 2019-20 | VGK | 71 | 27 | 27 | 54 | +17 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 169 | 16.0 | 17:55 |
| 2020-21 | VGK | 53 | 14 | 11 | 25 | +10 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 124 | 11.3 | 17:52 |
| 2021-22 | VGK | 56 | 16 | 22 | 38 | +4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 150 | 10.7 | 17:47 |
| 2022-23 | VGK | 78 | 26 | 30 | 56 | +11 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 180 | 14.4 | 16:58 |
| 2023-24 | PIT | 76 | 13 | 27 | 40 | +3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 152 | 8.6 | 16:08 |
| 2024-25 | NYR/VGK | 79 | 13 | 27 | 40 | +10 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 129 | 10.1 | 15:27 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 919 | 226 | 327 | 553 | +137 | 234 | 48 | 15 | 35 | 1902 | 11.9 | 16:46 |
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
13 goals and 27 assists in 79 games across New York and Vegas — 40 points at 15:27 a night, plus-10, with 2 shorthanded goals and 4 game-winners on 129 shots.
52.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 73rd percentile. His ice went 47-38 against an expectation of 41.93-38.33 — five goals better than expected for and level against.
The Finesse Game
129 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 39 per cent from inside 20, converting at 10.1 per cent.
27 assists in 79 games. The passing has always been the better half and the hockey sense is why he has lasted fourteen seasons — he arrives in the right place and he makes the correct read on a two-on-one almost every time.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 185 and he does not play a physical game. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks against defencemen.
24 penalty minutes in 79 games. He is disciplined and he kills penalties, and 2 shorthanded goals says the reads a man short are still there.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick of Dallas in 2009 and 919 games and 553 points across five organisations, with a Stanley Cup here in 2023 and another in Florida in 2024.
He is 34. He was traded away from Vegas after the Cup, played a season in Pittsburgh and part of one in New York, and came back at the 2025 deadline.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 969 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.2%
- 73rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50%
- 53rd 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: 47 for, 38 against. Expected: 41.9 and 38.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 — 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
2024-25 with NYR · 737 minutes at five-on-five
- Will Cuylle22%
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
- VGK took 53.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.2% — 1.3 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 969 minutes at five-on-five — 56th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mika Zibanejad | 53.6% | 50.9% | 46.2% |
| Chris Kreider | 51.2% | 52.8% | 42.6% |
| K'Andre Miller | 52.5% | 52.2% | 48.5% |
53.6% together, 50.9% for him apart and 46.2% for Zibanejad apart. Zibanejad was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Zibanejad 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 2024-25, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.