Ryan Leonard

Last Season

Twenty goals and 25 assists in 75 games — 45 points, plus-two, at 14:25 a night with four power-play goals and 47 penalty minutes. His first full professional season.

Forty-six points in 84 career games.

He turned 21 in January.

The Finesse Game

The shot is the tool and it is heavy. Two hundred and forty unblocked attempts, 21 goals, median 34 feet with only 26 per cent from inside twenty and 33 per cent from beyond forty.

Twenty goals off that chart at 21 is genuinely good and it is the profile that has to change — the goals are coming from range, and the strength to work inside is the next thing.

Twenty-five assists in fourteen minutes a night is a real rate.

The Physical Game

Six foot one, 205, and he plays with a hard, abrasive edge — forty-seven penalty minutes in his first full season is a high rate and it is deliberate.

He forechecks with intent and finishes checks. That was the scouting report at eighth overall and it has arrived intact.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point three per cent of the expected goals, 21st percentile, and 46 per cent of the shot attempts, 18th — the weakest figures of any Washington regular — across 895 minutes, with the chances 38.0 to 44.1 against.

The goals came out 57 for and 37 against anyway, which is Thompson.

Nine points in his last ten, five of them goals. He is 21, and twenty goals in a first full season is the line that matters. The rest of this page is what the second season is for.