I feel like he's under the radar at what 3rd or 4th in points on the team, but when you watch the games he's their best player and difference maker.Leonard's drawn at least two penalties with no calls
In his interview with the Caps before the draft, he straight up called himself a winner. And we're seeing it before our eyes.He's in the other teams head and outside of maybe Fowler, he's been by far their best player. Should've drawn 2 penalties(he completely walked a guy on 1 of them), made 2 great defensive plays that led directly to goals. Overall, he's the one who provided the most push-back when Michigan tech really started to get going. Really impressive performance by Leonard.
Holy shit, what shot.
Meh. third-line grinder.He's good
Man those announcers were full on crushing on Leonard after that goal.He's ridiculous. Colby Armstrong just said he reminds him of Jack Eichel when Eichel played at BU.
4 point night
I'm very on the fence about Dowd. I like having at least some vet presence down the middle, but he's not cheap and he's got some trade value.I'm liking the possibility of putting Ovechkin with Lapierre and Leonard. Both have the legs, pace and responsibility to be adequate cover and also open up room.
If the Caps make the playoffs with Lapierre at center then the need to add another dies down unless they trade Dowd. If they're thinking about adding on the wings it becomes more about subtracting because if Leonard joins the mix and Miro has also graduated there's not much room.