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Right wing · #9

Ryan Leonard

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
93 kg
Born
Northampton, USA
Draft
2023, round 1, #8 (WSH)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
87
Goals
23
Points
48
TOI per game
14:21
xGF% (5v5)
46.3%
Goals above expected
+1.7

Season by season

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

2024–25WSH9101−414:11175.9%01.945.8%
2025–26WSH75202545+214:2515313.1%1418.446.2%
2026–27WSH3202+113:24825.0%11.047.7%
Total1 team87232548−114:2117812.9%1521.346.3%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.21020304050607080
12m13m14m15m16m17m1020304050607080Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

62nd 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.1183rd pct
  • Assists /601.2069th pct
  • ixG /601.0282nd pct
  • Goals above expected+1.771st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.3%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.9%18th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.816th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6296th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game14:2151st pct
  • PP time share44.9%73rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.5%61st pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%41st 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).

Finishing

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.

+1.7 goals above expected

051015202520406080Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed34.8 km/h67th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph559th pct
  • Hardest shot119.0 km/h40th pct
  • Distance skated6 km13th pct
  • Offensive-zone time33.6%3rd 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

39.0 km/h99th pct

▲ +3.1 km/h since 2024–25

3436384024–2525–262024–25: 35.9 km/h, 41st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.0 km/h, 99th percentile (75 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.865th pct

▼ −1.2 since 2024–25

24681024–2525–262024–25: 8.0, 75th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 6.8, 65th percentile (75 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km8th pct

▼ −0.9 km since 2024–25

1414.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 15.5 km, 38th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.6 km, 8th percentile (75 games)

Hardest shot

151.2 km/h93rd pct

▲ +6.5 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015524–2525–262024–25: 144.7 km/h, 73rd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 151.2 km/h, 93rd percentile (75 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.6%32nd pct

▲ +2.6 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 38.0%, 8th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 40.6%, 32nd percentile (75 games)