2. Mid-range, high-danger prowess<\/p>\n
The Maple Leafs ranked ninth in mid-range goals (85) and 11th in high-danger goals (130) last season and were led by John Tavares<\/a>, who ranked ninth in the NHL in high-danger shots on goal (106) and 10th in high-danger goals (22). Tavares also ranked highly at his position in mid-range shots on goal (57; 87th percentile) and mid-range goals (seven; 84th percentile). It’s worth noting that Tavares ranked fifth in the League in high-danger shots on goal (106) and was among the forward leaders in high-danger goals (18; 95th percentile) and mid-range goals (13; 96th percentile) in 2024-25.<\/p>\n Auston Matthews<\/a>, who missed 22 games last season due to injury, still ranked highly at his position in high-danger shots on goal (84; 96th percentile), mid-range shots on goal (85; 96th percentile), long-range shots on goal (20; 91st percentile), mid-range goals (10; 93rd percentile) and high-danger goals (14; 87th percentile). In 2024-25, Matthews ranked in the 97th percentile at his position in both high-danger shots on goal (83) and mid-range shots on goal (94), while ranking highly among forwards in long-range shots on goal (20; 90th percentile), high-danger goals (17; 93rd percentile) and long-range goals (two; 93rd percentile).<\/p>\n Matthew Knies<\/a> had a career-high 66 points (23 goals, 43 assists) and 16 power-play points in 79 games last season and ranked among the forward leaders in high-danger shots on goal (84; 96th percentile), long-range goals (two; 93rd percentile) and high-danger goals (13; 83rd percentile). Knies finished highly at his position in high-danger goals (22; tied for 10th) and high-danger shots on goal (85; 97th percentile) in 2024-25. Jack Roslovic<\/a>, who has a chance to play on the first line with Matthews and Knies after the Maple Leafs signed him to a two-year contract in the offseason, ranked highly at his position in high-danger goals (13; 83rd percentile) and 20-plus mph speed bursts (186; 93rd percentile) last season.<\/p>\n Morgan Rielly<\/a>, who scored 11 goals last season (second most in career; scored 20 in 2018-19), ranked in the 92nd percentile at his position in mid-range goals (five), high-danger goals (three) and mid-range shots on goal (34). Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a>, who had 39 points (eight goals, 31 assists) last season, his most since recording 44 points in 2018-19 with the Arizona Coyotes, ranked highly among defensemen in mid-range goals (four; 88th percentile), long-range shots on goal (67; 87th percentile) and mid-range shots on goal (26; 84th percentile).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. Mid-range, high-danger prowess The Maple Leafs ranked ninth in mid-range goals (85) and 11th in high-danger goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-873153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873153","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=873153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}