Player Discussion Brett Leason

[slippingsloth]

24 year old who deserves his own thread after getting picked up from the Caps.

Mainly needs a thread so we dont only sing his praises in the depths of a game day thread.

He has had a good start to the 2023-24 year in a depth role

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[robbieboy3686]

If he can improve his shot somehow, he can become a really nice piece for us.

 

[mightyquack]

Been a pleasant surprise, was not a fan of him going into this season but he's been solid defensively and (finally) using his frame to initiate physical play. Seems like he's embraced that bottom six role instead of trying to be a scorer.

 

[JAHV]

I was down on Leason coming into this season, and his numbers have not been great. But he put a couple of absolute dangles on some Boston players last night. My jaw dropped on that one move where he went backhand-forehand through the triangle of a defender to get a shot off from the slot. I did not know he had that arrow in the quiver.

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

Gonna have to change his name to Brett Weason

 

[70sSanO]

Leason becoming more physical is a major improvement. I always thought he could puck handle for his size well enough and had a long reach, but his lack of physicality negated much of that.

Of course, having big brother Johnston on your line does help to increase the courage to hit more.

John

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Don’t remember the last guy who I did such a 180 on from one season to the next, kudos to him. Only guy in the entire bottom 6 who saw a significant number of games and was on the roster at the end of the year who should be a roster lock for next year