{"id":15819,"date":"2025-07-23T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15819\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:17:10","slug":"brett-leason-receiving-khl-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/15819\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Leason Receiving KHL Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A later entrant to this year\u2019s UFA market, Brett Leason<\/a> hasn\u2019t been able to secure a contract in the first three weeks of free agency.\u00a0 But while the NHL interest might not be materializing, it appears he may have some options in Russia, as Sport-Express\u2019s Artur Khairullin reports (Telegram link<\/a>) that the winger is of interest to some KHL clubs.\u00a0 It\u2019s unclear if the interest is mutual or if Leason\u2019s intention is to remain in North America next season.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old spent the last three seasons with Anaheim after they claimed him off waivers from Washington in 2022.\u00a0 In 2023-24, Leason had a career year, notching 11 goals and 11 assists in 68 games.\u00a0 The Ducks non-tendered him to avoid giving him arbitration rights but quickly re-signed him to a one-year, $1.05MM contract.<\/p>\n

However, last season didn\u2019t go anywhere near as well for Leason.\u00a0 He was quieter offensively, putting up just five goals with a dozen assists in 62 games while still averaging around 13 minutes a night of action.\u00a0 Meanwhile, he was a healthy scratch for the other 20.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, with Leason still being arbitration-eligible, he was non-tendered once again last month.<\/p>\n

This time, there wasn\u2019t a quick contract to be landed.\u00a0 But Leason, a six-foot-five winger, has been primarily deployed in a defensive role over the last couple of years and has logged regular minutes on the penalty kill which could make him worthy of consideration for some teams heading into training camp.\u00a0 Speculatively, Leason is the type of player that teams will likely look to bring in on a PTO.\u00a0 But if he wants something guaranteed before then, it looks like he may have some KHL options on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A later entrant to this year\u2019s UFA market, Brett Leason hasn\u2019t been able to secure a contract in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,17293,981,575,85],"class_list":["post-15819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brett-leason","tag-khl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}