Currently entering his tenth season in the NHL, Morgan Rielly has been the best Defenseman for Toronto for years, a prognostication that the organization hoped for when they took him Fifth Overall in 2012.
Rielly made the Leafs the following season, and he has at least 20 Assists in his first four seasons, providing solid offensive rushes, while quickly finding work on the power play. In his fifth season (2017-18), Rielly broke out with a 52 Point year, which he followed with his best season to date, a 20-52-72 campaign that saw him finish fifth in Norris voting.
He dropped back to his rookie numbers the two years after, but he rebounded in 2021/22 with a 68-Point campaign and had 58 last year with his first All-Star Game appearance. As the top offensive blueliner in Toronto going into the 2023-24, Rielly is poised to climb many more rungs on this ladder.
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