He’s the longest tenured participant on the Toronto Maple Leafs and now, Morgan Rielly has 800 NHL video games performed underneath his belt. The Maple Leafs’ assistant captain and long-time defenceman reached the milestone sport in a loss to — fittingly — the Boston Bruins on Saturday night time. Nevertheless, he did tally his first objective of the season within the milestone sport.
Rielly was drafted by the Maple Leafs fifth total in 2012 and debuted with the staff in 2013-14 ending with two objectives and 27 factors in 73 video games that season. Since then, he’s gone on to attain 82 objectives and 476 factors in 800 profession video games with the Maple Leafs over elements of 12 seasons.
The 30-year-old had his finest season in 2018-19 when he put up 20 objectives and 72 factors in 82 video games for the staff, however he’s coming off a season wherein he scored seven objectives and 58 factors for a Maple Leafs staff that didn’t see a lot manufacturing from their blue line in 2023-24.
Morgan Rielly finds the again of the web in his 800th NHL sport! 🍁#NHLStats: https://t.co/H9F4vkWw5H
📺: @Sportsnet or stream on Sportsnet+ ➡️ https://t.co/4KjbdjVctF pic.twitter.com/nhp5JskJnt
— NHL (@NHL) October 27, 2024
He sits eleventh on the Maple Leafs’ all-time video games performed record, simply 38 again of coming into the top-10, and fourth amongst defensemen within the staff’s historical past. He’s sixth amongst defenceman on the staff’s all-time objectives record — one shy of each Tomas Kaberle and Bryan McCabe — and third in assists. He’s additionally third in all-time factors by Maple Leafs’ defensemen behind solely Kaberle (520) and Börje Salming (768).
He’s simply the 266th defenceman in NHL historical past to succeed in the 800-game plateau and simply the thirty fourth lively blue liner to succeed in the mark. It’s additionally value noting that he’s tied for tenth amongst lively defensemen in factors, alongside teammate Oliver Ekman-Larsson.
