Mac said during the trade deadline presser that he thought Leonard looked ready at camp last year.
“I don’t think — we don’t want to interrupt his season,” MacLellan said. “We have player development guys going in all the time, meeting with him. I don’t think it’s, ‘We want you to turn pro.’ We’ll assess with his agent. We’ll talk to him at the end of the year, talk about the year and where he’s at, and make a decision based on that.
“It’ll be a lot in his hands, in my opinion, on what he wants to do. Does he want to go back for another year or does he want to turn pro? We’ll accommodate his wishes.”
If you ask MacLellan, Leonard was already ready to throw on a Capitals jersey earlier this year. “At rookie camp, he looked like he could play, in my mind,” he said.
The Washington Capitals drafted Ryan Leonard with the eighth overall selection in the 2023 NHL Draft out of the US National Development…
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