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Right wing · #20

Brett Leason

Washington Capitals Anaheim Ducks(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
196 cm
Weight
100 kg
Born
Calgary, CAN
Draft
2019, round 2, #56 (WSH)

Career · 2021–22 to 2025–26

Games
226
Goals
25
Points
54
TOI per game
11:44
xGF% (5v5)
40.3%
Goals above expected
+1.2
ShowAll teamsWashington CapitalsAnaheim Ducks

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2021–22WSH36336+18:57456.7%03.253.1%
2022–23ANA54639−2110:545111.8%05.035.3%
2023–24ANA68111122−713:019112.1%07.740.8%
2024–25ANA6251217−212:59796.3%27.538.3%
2025–26WSH6000−28:3510.0%00.350.6%
Total2 teams226252954−3111:442679.4%223.840.3%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.850100150200
8m10m12m14m16m50100150200Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

12th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

4th line
  • Goals /600.5733rd pct
  • Assists /600.6624th pct
  • ixG /600.5414th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.269th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)40.3%4th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.1%7th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.220th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2317th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:4429th pct
  • PP time share5.2%28th pct
  • Offensive zone starts37.5%16th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%50th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Oskar LindblomPHI/SJS0.95
  2. Max WillmanPHI0.92
  3. Mitchell StephensDET/SEA0.90
  4. Bo GroulxANA0.90
  5. Antoine RousselARI0.89
  6. Greg McKegg0.89

Faceoffs

How often Leason wins the draw over 2021–22 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1020+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

33.3%

47–94 · below the 1020 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

33.4%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

−23

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.8

141 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

44%16 · +1.036%11 · +2.626%43 · +1.20%4 · –38%8 · −2.520%5 · +1.70%3 · –60%5 · −1.139%46 · +0.5Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone27.8% 15–39
  • Neutral zone30.6% 11–25
  • Defensive zone41.2% 21–30

By strength

  • Even strength35.5% 43–78
  • Power play12.5% 1–7
  • Shorthanded25.0% 3–9

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +6 after a win, −17 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2021–22837.5%35.9%
2022–23633.3%35.0%
2023–244141.5%42.0%
2024–258128.4%28.1%
2025–26540.0%42.2%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+1.2 goals above expected

051015202550100150200Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−40−200+20+40+60+80

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed36.0 km/h57th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1422nd pct
  • Hardest shot110.7 km/h5th pct
  • Distance skated14 km12th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.5%55th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

36.0 km/h47th pct

▼ −0.9 km/h since 2024–25

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.6 km/h, 37th percentile (36 games)2022–23: 35.8 km/h, 41st percentile (54 games)2023–24: 35.8 km/h, 46th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 36.9 km/h, 76th percentile (62 games)2025–26: 36.0 km/h, 47th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

16.398th pct

▲ +7.4 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 10.8, 89th percentile (36 games)2022–23: 7.0, 71st percentile (54 games)2023–24: 8.1, 78th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 8.9, 80th percentile (62 games)2025–26: 16.3, 98th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.4 km91st pct

▲ +1.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.51721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.0 km, 75th percentile (36 games)2022–23: 15.3 km, 45th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 15.5 km, 43rd percentile (68 games)2024–25: 15.4 km, 35th percentile (62 games)2025–26: 16.4 km, 91st percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

110.7 km/h0th pct

▼ −39.2 km/h since 2024–25

10012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 140.5 km/h, 36th percentile (36 games)2022–23: 137.0 km/h, 22nd percentile (54 games)2023–24: 145.3 km/h, 66th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 149.8 km/h, 90th percentile (62 games)2025–26: 110.7 km/h, 0th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

42.5%59th pct

▲ +6.0 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 43.3%, 72nd percentile (36 games)2022–23: 35.5%, 2nd percentile (54 games)2023–24: 36.7%, 4th percentile (68 games)2024–25: 36.5%, 1st percentile (62 games)2025–26: 42.5%, 59th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)