The ice-time argument is probably pretty useless. There is always an assumption on here that the people who vote for a trophy are going to give the same amount of sh#ts as you do about what ever you decide to care about - and whatever you decided to care about is pretty much whatever you think either puts a player you like in the best light, or a player you don't like (or a player who plays for a team you don't like) in the worst light. I have never seen any evidence that most sports writers could give any sh$ts at all about the crap that people argue about on HF. They didn't give a crap that Subban was playing 4 minutes a game less than the D he beat out. Well it would probably be more accurate to say that most of the voting sports writers didn't know that Subban was playing 4 minutes less because they could care less about such things.
Rielly's ice-time indicates nothing except who his coach is. It is about a minute less than Lidstrom played during his last Norris winning season, and Babs has shifted more towards accepting what the Leafs' sports science team advocates since. At 5v5 Babcock hard matches his D against the opposing forwards like no other coach. Rielly gets the toughest match up. He plays more at ES (35 seconds more per game) than higher TOI D like Giordano - the difference is special teams. Despite Toronto having a stacked PP1 for the first time, Babs still doesn't play them any more than his PP2. Giordano plays 50% more PP time, and 2.7 times as much PK time. Again - this is pure Babs only playing players either on the PP or PK. Rielly is the only exception - playing on the PP1 and PK2 - but Babs has the D (Hainsey and Zaitsev) on PK1 take almost all the PK time. (And no - before someone mentions it - Marner and Tavares are not regulars on the PK - that is Hyman, Brown, Lindholm and Kapanen. Marner and Tavares are spare PKers who generally are only on at the end of a PK with the hope of creating offense around the time 5v5 resumes).