Nick Leddy is on fire

[Vankiller Whale]

Haven't seen any threads on him, but thought he deserved some love. Had a career year last year of 46 points, currently has 20 points in 23 games, with 19 in his last 16 and 7 in his last 4.

On pace for over 20 goals and 70 points over the entire season. He's also only 26 and given that defensemen often peak later than forwards could this be the start of a new chapter for him offensively?

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[Beautvillier]

he's one of the smoothest skaters i've ever seen

 

[JaegerDice]

He's a one-man breakout that can shoot like a forward.

He's real good.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I never understood why Chicago traded Leddy, he's a straight up gem.

 

[Sorge Georos]

I never understood why Chicago traded Leddy, he's a straight up gem.

The Isles inked him to a long extension in his first season here. I think Chicago was cap crunched and their defense was pretty stacked.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The Isles inked him to a long extension in his first season here. I think Chicago was cap crunched and their defense was pretty stacked.

Yeah that's true, it's just weird because I forgot guys that they had guys like Oduya still, who was good. Still though, keeping Oduya and trading Leddy seems like a very questionable move. Hell, a lot of Chicago's moves in recent years seem questionable.

 

[Sorge Georos]

Yeah that's true, it's just weird because I forgot guys that they had guys like Oduya still, who was good. Still though, keeping Oduya and trading Leddy seems like a very questionable move. Hell, a lot of Chicago's moves in recent years seem questionable.

I expected more from Ville Pokka

 

[stl76]

Glad to see Leddy get some love, he is criminally underrated around here IMO.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

leddy has done great this year, as of now I cant have him outside the top 30 dmen in the NHL.

 

[solidprospect]

He had a very good game against Ottawa , smooth skater and good with the puck.

 

[Hogan86]

My fantasy team is thrilled about his recent hot streak. Leddy is a great player though. One of most underrated and least talked about smooth skating offensives defensemen in the league.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Haven't seen any threads on him, but thought he deserved some love. Had a career year last year of 46 points, currently has 20 points in 23 games, with 19 in his last 16 and 7 in his last 4.

On pace for over 20 goals and 70 points over the entire season. He's also only 26 and given that defensemen often peak later than forwards could this be the start of a new chapter for him offensively?

I wouldn't necessarily say a new chapter offensively. I think the Islanders becoming a better team and clicking on multiple cylinders offensively lets a guy like Leddy flourish. It's more of a team thing. Puck goes through Leddy a lot and when forwards can make a lot of plays and finish, you can rack up the points.

However, new chapter for Leddy as a player? Why not. It's easy to forget this guy has quietly played top pairing minutes for the Islanders for 3 years now. I've always felt like dmen benefit the most from experience, part of the reason why they tend to hit their primes later.

It's funny how we've had all these 25-26 year olds looking like they're having career years this season. Good reminder that you can always get better. Growing confidence isn't related to age.

 

[Coffey]

Always liked him because announcers always had to say his full name.

 

[ColbyChaos]

The Isles inked him to a long extension in his first season here. I think Chicago was cap crunched and their defense was pretty stacked.

Him being traded in October and not early in the summer kind of paints a picture in my mind at least that they wanted to try and keep him and make it work under the cap.

Yeah that's true, it's just weird because I forgot guys that they had guys like Oduya still, who was good. Still though, keeping Oduya and trading Leddy seems like a very questionable move. Hell, a lot of Chicago's moves in recent years seem questionable.

In heinsight yea a bit but Leddy was also always stuck on the bottom pairing here, Q never really seemed to trust him. Oduya also was a extremely reliable top 4 and formed a great shutdown pair with Hjalmarsson (even both making team Sweden in Vancouver and Sochi)

There was also probably the belief that guys like Dahlbeck, TVR, and Clendenning (lol) were NHL ready after many great seasons in rockford, in TVR's case showing he could play at an nhl level. Pokka has been a letdown though being one of the isles very best prospects im just glad we at least made a positive move with Clendenning for Forsling to offset it a bit.

Leddy is a pretty good representation of what teams would love to have in a modern dman now though.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Weirdly underrated, last year people laughed when Doug Weight said McDavid May be the only better straight ahead skater than him and then seeing Leddy catch him a few weeks ago (Oilers still scored) in OT was terrific.

I believe as far as the transition game goes, only Karlsson is better.

 

[JaegerDice]

Yeah that's true, it's just weird because I forgot guys that they had guys like Oduya still, who was good. Still though, keeping Oduya and trading Leddy seems like a very questionable move. Hell, a lot of Chicago's moves in recent years seem questionable.

Q trusted Oduya more than Leddy. Leddy barely got the playing time his performance (and potential) merited.

To be fair, the season after he left, they went an won a cup largely on the back of 4 dmen including Oduya...so if one of the 4 guys remaining was a guy that Q didn't trust, they would have been ****ed.

That, and Oduya was making like...3mil, Leddy was making 5.5 in NYI. So even if they chose Oduya over Leddy, they would have had to shed something to keep him. And why do that for a player your coach won't play above te 3rd pair?

I guess you could move out the coach if you REALLY loved the player, but he had coached the team to two cups and 2 WCFs at that point, then went on to another cup. So that's a ballsy move over Nick Leddy, great as he is.

 

[Ainec]

one of Snow's best moves

 

[ColbyChaos]

Q trusted Oduya more than Leddy. Leddy barely got the playing time his performance (and potential) merited.

To be fair, the season after he left, they went an won a cup largely on the back of 4 dmen including Oduya...so if one of the 4 guys remaining was a guy that Q didn't trust, they would have been ****ed.

That, and Oduya was making like...3mil, Leddy was making 5.5 in NYI. So even if they chose Oduya over Leddy, they would have had to shed something to keep him. And why do that for a player your coach won't play above te 3rd pair?

That game 7 goal with him basically screening crawford is still brutal to watch

 

[JaegerDice]

That game 7 goal with him basically screening crawford is still brutal to watch

He was put on the ice with a line of Versteeg-Handzus-Bollig, had his stick knocked out of his hands by Williams, had to recover it and head to the front of the net because 2 of those guys had no idea where to be and the other was too slow to get where he needed to be.

He could have played it better, but no player's fate should ever be decided on the basis of one play, and I doubt that was what got him shipped out of town.

 

[BMOK33]

The main concern with Leddy continues to be after April 10. He has continued to show signs wth the Isles of the same issues in the postseason that caused Quenneville to run him out of Chicago. His series against Washington and Florida in 2015 and 16 were just terrible and the team largely won in spite of him

 

[Riseonfire]

SHHHHHHHH Leddy sucks. Not sure what you are talking about. Overated.

 

[PWJunior]

Weirdly underrated, last year people laughed when Doug Weight said McDavid May be the only better straight ahead skater than him and then seeing Leddy catch him a few weeks ago (Oilers still scored) in OT was terrific.

I believe as far as the transition game goes, only Karlsson is better.

Leddy doesn't pass the puck in transition, he just carries it at will into the offensive zone. It's insane how low effort his stride looks while he just blows past everyone. His hands are underrated too, he's a 1 man transition game. He's finally fully embraced what he does best and Weight has full confidence in him.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

The main concern with Leddy continues to be after April 10. He has continued to show signs wth the Isles of the same issues in the postseason that caused Quenneville to run him out of Chicago. His series against Washington and Florida in 2015 and 16 were just terrible and the team largely won in spite of him

Wait what?

Isles beat Florida on the backs of Tavares, Leddy and Greiss individual efforts.

Florida had nothing vs Leddys zone entries and he was the second best dman in the first round behind Hedman IMO

 

[SI90]

Thanks for this thread. You can kiss Leddys point streak goodbye!!!

Seriously though he’s been great since he’s been an islander.

 

[RMimagery]

One of the most underrated. Now team usa will have to take notice.