Confirmed Signing with Link: [WSH] F Ryan Leonard signed ELC with the Capitals (3 years, $950k AAV)

[SI90]

 

[um]

Yes please!

 

[Misery74]

At the Garden no less.

 

[Altimus]

And the rich get richer...I'm just a jealous hater.

 

[SEALBound]

God the Caps have a few great prospects coming up.

 

[MisterT]

Happy for the Caps, happier for my Sim team but also leery as a hot start will mean fielding a slew of pi$$poor offers from the league's dumba$$es.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

AO and Leonard are going to be fighting over those EN goals!

(If you dont know, about 1/4th if Leonard’s goals were EN this season)

 

[Misery74]

AO and Leonard are going to be fighting over those EN goals!

(If you dont know, about 1/4th if Leonard’s goals were EN this season)

That will mean we are winning, which would be 100% ok with us Caps fans.

 

[eojsmada]

Leonard could be a huge boost to an already deadly Caps team.

 

[boredmale]

 

[The Crypto Guy]

That will mean we are winning, which would be 100% ok with us Caps fans.

Good point

 

[5cotland]

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Good looking player .

 

[Djp]

As expected....

 

[Gliff]

Always a relief when a top college player signs, no matter how unlikely it was they would leave.. I hate players going UFA.

 

[SI90]

And the caps can still add Hutson after the frozen 4 lol.

 

[Kolzilla]

And the caps can still add Hutson after the frozen 4 lol.

Pretty sure the plan is for Cole to spend another year in NCAA. There's no spot for him with the big club.

 

[stempniaksen]

Just what the top team in the NHL needed, one of the best players not in the NHL being added to their roster.

Any chance he carves out a spot in the lineup this season/into the playoffs? At face value he'd look great in Raddysh or Duhaime's spot.

 

[qcal1427]

Just what the top team in the NHL needed, one of the best players not in the NHL being added to their roster.

Any chance he carves out a spot in the lineup this season/into the playoffs? At face value he'd look great in Raddysh or Duhaime's spot.

He could take Raddysh or Mangiapane's spot, although I would be somewhat surprised if everyone is healthy and he is in the lineup for game 1. Duhaime is not coming out

 

[Holtbyisms]

He's going to get the chance to earn a spot, he steps up and plays well he'll be in the playoffs.

 

[SI90]

Pretty sure the plan is for Cole to spend another year in NCAA. There's no spot for him with the big club.

Wouldn’t hurt him spending another year. He was only a freshman. Hard to imagine what crazy numbers he could put up next year at BU.

 

[TGWL]

Just what the top team in the NHL needed, one of the best players not in the NHL being added to their roster.

Any chance he carves out a spot in the lineup this season/into the playoffs? At face value he'd look great in Raddysh or Duhaime's spot.

They definitely signed him to get him in the lineup and some NHL games now. Wouldn't be shocked to see him in the lineup for their game tomorrow, or at the very least sometime this week.

 

[WarriorofTime]

I have a feeling he will make the playoff roster.

 

[Random schmoe]

Just what the top team in the NHL needed, one of the best players not in the NHL being added to their roster.

They may also get Andrew Cristall, he of the 132 points in 57 games in the WHL, to either DC or Hershey before the playoffs end. (Pending how deep Spokane goes in the WHL playoffs themselves.)

 

[TheBigLetowski]

Not a caps fan in the least, but excited to see him in the big leagues. He's going to make that caps team even better.