{"id":16343,"date":"2025-07-22T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16343\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:02:07","slug":"sharks-ryan-reaves-explains-why-he-only-fought-once-with-maple-leafs-in-2024-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16343\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks\u2019 Ryan Reaves explains why he only fought once with Maple Leafs in 2024-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Nearly two weeks since Ryan Reaves was traded to the<a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> San Jose Sharks<\/a>, the former <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/theleafsnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> pugilist sat down with Nick Alberga and Jay Rosehill on The Leafs Nation to discuss his time in Toronto, including why he only dropped the gloves once in 35 regular-season games in 2024-25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cBeginning of the season, we played <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey (Devils)<\/a>, second game of the season. I got scratched right away. We played (the) <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/columbus-blue-jackets\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus (Blue Jackets)<\/a>, I think, soon after that. (Mathieu) Olivier had a broken hand,\u201d Reaves said. \u201cWe played (the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/philadelphia-flyers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>) twice, (Nicolas) Delauriers was hurt for both those games. I believe I was scratched for one of those games. Then we played Jersey again. I played, (Kurtis) MacDermid didn\u2019t play. MacDermid played, I didn\u2019t play.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Reaves only fight during the 2024-25 season was against the 28-year-old Olivier, who is among the NHL\u2019s toughest players. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of heavies that are going to fight me, right? And so, if I\u2019m missing, right there, that\u2019s six, seven games of playing against heavies,\u201d Reaves continued. \u201cThat\u2019s just kind of the circumstance of what I was dealt this year. Definitely not my design, definitely not what I wanted to do. Obviously, my role is to fight, and I would love to have done it a little bit more. Those guys I didn\u2019t play against, and also, I was scratched a ton this year. That\u2019s just kind of the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Through 15 NHL seasons, Reaves, a 2005 fifth-round pick for the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, has 63 goals and 74 assists for 137 points and 1,100 penalty minutes in 912 career regular-season games with the Maple Leafs, Blues, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/minnesota-wild\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a>, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Reaves also has three goals and six assists for nine points and 116 penalty minutes in 113 career Stanley Cup Playoff games. He was a member of the Golden Knights\u2019 inaugural season, helping the club advance to the Stanley Cup Final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two weeks since Ryan Reaves was traded to the San Jose Sharks, the former Toronto Maple Leafs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-16343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}