Brett Leason
Washington Capitals Right Wing
Six-foot-five, 220 pounds, 220 NHL games, and 54 points.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | WSH | 36 | 3 | 3 | 6 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 6.7 | 8:57 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 54 | 6 | 3 | 9 | -21 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 11.8 | 10:54 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 68 | 11 | 11 | 22 | -7 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 91 | 12.1 | 13:01 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 62 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -2 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 6.3 | 12:59 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 220 | 25 | 29 | 54 | -29 | 54 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 266 | 9.4 | 11:49 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
5 goals and 12 assists in 62 games for Anaheim — 17 points at 12:59 a night, minus-2, with a power-play goal on 79 shots, and 22 penalty minutes.
Anaheim finished well out of the playoffs and a minus-2 there is a reasonable result. Seventeen points at thirteen minutes a night is a thirteenth-forward season.
The Finesse Game
79 attempts and 5 goals at 6.3 per cent. 54 points in 220 career games across four seasons.
12 assists. There is very little creation. He goes to the net and takes what the forecheck produces, and the finishing has never arrived.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 220 and he uses the size honestly. He wins pucks below the goal line, he is difficult to move off the front of the net, and he forechecks properly without hurting anybody.
22 penalty minutes in 62 games is a low rate. He is not an agitator and he does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick of Washington in 2019 — 56th overall — after going undrafted twice, and 220 games across two organisations.
He is 26. Washington brought him back in the summer, which for a player the club originally drafted and let go is an admission that a 6-5 forward who can play thirteen minutes is worth another look.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 661 minutes
- Expected goals
- 40.7%
- 2nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 41.5%
- 2nd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 28 for, 25 against. Expected: 20.8 and 30.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with ANA · 661 minutes at five-on-five
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.7% — 3.9 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 661 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isac Lundestrom | 42.0% | 39.3% | 43.3% |
| Radko Gudas | 47.2% | 37.7% | 46.0% |
| Jackson LaCombe | 46.9% | 38.0% | 48.7% |
42.0% together, 39.3% for him apart and 43.3% for Lundestrom apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
118 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 34% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.