BREAKING: Maple Leafs Scratch Ryan Reaves
The Ryan Reaves experiment in Toronto has not gone well so far this season and could be close to an end as the team scratched him from Saturday night's lineup versus Vancouver.
Now in his 14th season in the NHL, the man known as the «Grim Reaper,» signed a 3-year, $4 million contact in the offseason, but just 14 games in, there has been nothing to show for it.
On Saturday morning, Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Freidman reported that head coach Sheldon Keefe was making a change.
In his place, the Maple Leafs, who are 7-5-2 this season, recalled Bobby McMann from Toronto (AHL) on Saturday.
Minutes diminished considerably for Reaves
Reaves had been playing right wing on the fourth line but logged just 4:33 in Friday night's 5-4 overtime win against Calgary.
He finished Friday's game with a +/- of -2, pushing him to -11 on the season without either a goal or assist.
Reaves started last season going 12 games without a point before the Rangers traded him to Minnesota, where he would score five goals and add 10 assists over 61 minutes.
This season, the tough guy averaged just 7:32 of ice time per game and picked up 12 minutes in penalties.
| POLL | ||
NOVEMBRE 11 | 159 ANSWERS BREAKING: Maple Leafs Scratch Ryan Reaves Is Reaves' time in Toronto up? | ||
| Yes | 118 | 74.2 % |
| No | 41 | 25.8 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Jason Robertson | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Chandler Stephenson | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jalen Chatfield | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mikael Granlund | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Roope Hintz | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wyatt Johnston | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Brandon Montour | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| William Nylander | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mitch Marner | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jaden Schwartz | - | 2 | 2 | |
| John Tavares | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jamie Benn | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Evgeny Dadonov | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Yanni Gourde | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Pontus Holmberg | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Fraser Minten | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ryan Poehling | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jack Roslovic | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Daniel Sprong | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 19 | 16 | 3 | - | 32 | |
Hurricanes | 18 | 14 | 4 | - | 28 | |
Capitals | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 27 | |
Wild | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 27 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Devils | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 25 | |
Stars | 18 | 12 | 6 | - | 24 | |
Golden Knights | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 24 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||