Mike Reilly

Mike Reilly
Date of birth	July 13, 1993
place of birth	Chicago , Illinois , USA
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 4th round, 98th position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2011–2012	Penticton Vees
2012-2015	University of Minnesota
2015-2018	Minnesota Wild Iowa Wild
2018-2020	Canadiens de Montréal
since 2020	Ottawa Senators

Michael "Mike" Reilly junior (born July 13, 1993 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League since January 2020 .

Career

youth

Mike Reilly was born in Chicago, but grew up in Chanhassen , Minnesota . His father, Michael "Mike" Reilly senior, was selected in the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft in 140th position by the Canadiens de Montréal , but was never active in the professional field. In addition to Mike Reilly Jr., he has four other children, all of whom have played ice hockey at least at college level. Mike Reilly junior attended the Academy of Holy Angels and Shattuck-St. Mary's School and played for their ice hockey teams in regional high school leagues until 2011. In the 2011 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets in 98th position. For the 2011/12 season, the defender moved to the Penticton Vees from the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) in Penticton, Canada . As a rookie, he led all defenders in goals (24), assists (59) and scorer points (83) and was therefore appointed to the league's all-rookie team . With the Vees he also became champion of the BCHL and a little later won the Doyle Cup .

University of Minnesota

In the fall of 2012, Reilly enrolled at the University of Minnesota to begin a degree in economics and at the same time participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game with their ice hockey team, the Minnesota Golden Gophers . As a freshman , the defender scored 14 points in 37 games, taking part in the U20 World Cup in 2013 with the U20 national team of his home country over the turn of the year, where he won the gold medal. In the following season, Reilly increased his personal statistics significantly and at the end of the season was elected to the First All-Star Team and Defensive Player of the Year of the Big Ten Conference . The American received both awards the following year, in which he was also the champion of the Big Ten Conference with the Golden Gophers . He was also one of ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award for best college player in the country. After he first represented the senior team of the United States when he in the squad of Team USA at the World Cup in 2015 was one and there won the bronze medal.

NHL

Four years after the Columbus Blue Jackets had selected him in the NHL Entry Draft, their player rights to him lapsed, so the Minnesota Wild were able to sign him in July 2015, with another nine franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL) showing interest in the defender. As expected, the Minnesota Wild sent him to their farm team , the Iowa Wild , in the American Hockey League (AHL). There he played until January 2016, when he was first called into the NHL squad and made his debut for the Minnesota Wild a little later. By the end of the season Reilly changed regularly between AHL and NHL, where he completed a total of 29 NHL and 45 AHL appearances in the season.

In February 2018, the Wild gave him to the Canadiens de Montréal for the trade deadline and in return received a five-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft . Also in exchange for a five-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 2021 and the attacker Andrew Sturtz , he moved to the Ottawa Senators in January 2020 after almost two years in Montréal .

Achievements and Awards

2012 Doyle Cup win with the Penticton Vees 2014 Big Ten First All-Star Team 2015 Big Ten Conference Championship with the University of Minnesota

2015 Big Ten First All-Star Team 2015 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award

International

• 2013 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 2015 bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2011/12	Penticton Vees	BCHL		51	24	59	83		42		15th	1	7th	8th		10
2012/13	University of Minnesota	NCAA		37	3	11	14th	+1	14th
2013/14	University of Minnesota	NCAA		41	9	24	33	+19	18th
2014/15	University of Minnesota	NCAA		39	6th	36	42	+25	44
2015/16	Iowa Wild	AHL		45	5	18th	23	-27	10		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL		29	1	6th	7th	-4	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Iowa Wild	AHL		57	5	25th	30th	+4	48		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Minnesota Wild	NHL		17th	1	0	1	+1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Iowa Wild	AHL		1	1	0	1	-1	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Minnesota Wild	NHL		38	2	8th	10	–6	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		19th	0	8th	8th	+1	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		57	3	8th	11	± 0	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		14th	0	4th	4th	+2	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Ottawa Senators	NHL		30th	1	11	12	-8th	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				117	18th	71	89	+45	76
AHL total				103	11	43	54	-24	60		-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				204	8th	45	53	-14	76		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

• U20 World Cup 2013
• World Championship 2015

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013	United States	U20 World Cup			7th	1	2	3	+4	4th
2015	United States	WM			10	0	1	1	+3	0
Juniors overall					7th	1	2	3	+4	4th
Men overall					10	0	1	1	+3	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Ottawa Senators website
• Mike Reilly at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phil Ervin: Home Sweet Home For Mike Reilly. wild.nhl.com, July 1, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Mike Reilly. gophersports.com, accessed July 13, 2016 . 
3. ^ Charlie Roumeliotis: Mike Reilly chooses to sign with Wild over Blackhawks. csnchicago.com, June 26, 2015, accessed July 13, 2016 .