"I look upfront, I thought Ryan Leonard had his best game as a pro, to be honest with you,"
"His skating, his shooting. He was making moves. He looked very comfortable."
"I don't know the total shots or whatever, but yeah, we had a lot of really good looks. I mean, it's tough sometimes when the puck's not really going in at the start of the game, and then their goalie starts to feel it a little bit, and it's honestly the last thing you want when a goalie gets confident like that. So he played great, but we've got to find a way to put those pucks past him with that many shots."
Ryan Leonard, 20-year-old winger, produced the most offensively active game of his short NHL career despite a 6-3 loss. Leonard skated 15:08, recorded seven shots on goal (a personal single-game high), and had nine shot attempts overall. He created four individual scoring chances, one individual high-danger chance, and blocked one shot while executing several strong zone entries and plays along the wall. A highlight came early in the second period when Leonard deked around a defenseman and curled a shot around Jeff Petry that was stopped by Panthers goalie Daniil Tarasov. The Capitals generated many quality looks but struggled to finish.
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