Rick Ley played 6 seasons (1969–1981) for Toronto Maple Leafs and Hartford Whalers. Career regular-season line: 12 goals and 72 assists (84 points) in 309 games. Shooting Star career, peaking in 1971.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 50.9th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNHL Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNHL Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNHL Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNHL Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Skaters and Goalies)NHL Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNHL JourneymenNHL League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNHL LoyaltyNHL Only Club — Statistical Exclusivity
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
Fan Rating
Rate Rick Ley — All-Time
6 seasons · peak 2.5 in 1971
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
1.4 career wins over 6 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1971 · +0.7 wins
Latest season · 1981 · −0.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Rick Ley led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Shooting Star
One or two seasons that define the entire career — brief but incandescent. Peak 1971, 6 rated seasons.
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Gave the Toronto Maple Leafs an entire corpus-attributed career — 4 seasons (1969–1972), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.