Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly is having an off year compared to his own lofty standards, but there’s a reason behind his relatively slow first half of the season.
Rielly revealed to The Athletic’s Jonas Siegel that he’s been playing through discomfort with an undisclosed injury.
“It was a pretty significant amount of pain,” Rielly said. “But I did my MRIs and everything like that and there was no damage to the real important things. So it was just a matter of pain management.”
“We took some action over the Christmas holidays and I’m feeling much better after some minor stuff that we did,” he added.