It was possibly their most full sport of the season to date and with the trouble, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Boston Bruins by a rating of 4-0. It was the primary time this season that the Maple Leafs noticed their powerplay come alive and — together with going six-for-six on the penalty kill — the workforce was in a position to collectively get the job carried out.
Together with his aim at 8:44 of the second interval, the 84th of his profession, Morgan Rielly has handed Tomas Kaberle (83) and Bryan McCabe (83) for sole possession of fifth in franchise historical past for objectives scored amongst Maple Leafs defencemen.
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Together with their shutdown play, the Maple Leafs noticed their defensive corps account for 4 of the 11 factors collected by the workforce — together with Morgan Rielly’s three factors, opening the scoring halfway via the second interval.
For Rielly, it was the fourth aim of his season after scoring simply seven all of final season. It was an vital profession marker as properly, because it was his 84th profession aim and the 84th in a Maple Leafs’ uniform.
The aim pushed him out of a tie with two former Maple Leafs’ blueliners on the workforce’s all-time defensive aim scoring record and moved him into sole possession of fourth on the franchises record. Going into the sport on Tuesday towards the Bruins, Rielly was tied with Tomas Kaberle (83) and Bryan McCabe (83), however surpassed the previous tandem together with his second interval tally.
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He now sits 25 objectives again of the late Tim Horton (109) for third on the franchise’s all-time record and 64 again of the late Börje Salming for tops on that record. His three-point night time additionally places him inside 39 factors of tying Kaberle on the workforce’s all-time factors record by a defenceman — a testomony to his consistency with the Maple Leafs over his profession.
Thus far this season, Rielly sits second to Cale Makar (5) in objectives by a defenceman and tied for tenth in factors.
His finest offensive season got here in 2018-19 when he had 20 objectives and 72 factors in 82 video games and averaged 0.87 factors per sport. As of now, he’s on tempo for 52 factors this season, however that would change with a pair extra three-point performances like Tuesday night time.
