{"id":24546,"date":"2025-07-26T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24546\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:06:10","slug":"ryan-leonard-snipes-goal-and-sonny-milano-skates-in-shoulder-check-showcase-charity-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24546\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Leonard snipes goal and Sonny Milano skates in Shoulder Check Showcase charity game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals had some representation on the ice at the 2025 Shoulder Check Showcase charity game<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard and Sonny Milano squared off in the third annual event at Terry Conners Rink in Stamford, Connecticut. The two were part of a group of 26 NHL players who gathered to help raise money for the HT40 Foundation<\/a>, a mental health charity created in honor of the late Hayden Thorsen.<\/p>\n

Leonard played on NHL trainer Ben Prentiss and former Metropolitan Riveters captain Madison Packer\u2019s team, while Milano played on a team led by Martin St. Louis and Jonathan Quick.<\/p>\n

Leonard scored one of 11 goals for Team Prentiss in an 11-5 victory over Team Quick. The 20-year-old winger beat a defender to the outside at the blue line and rifled a wicked wrister off the post behind Dallas Stars netminder Jake Oettinger and in.<\/p>\n

The Boston College product is expected to play his first full season with the Capitals next year after 17 combined regular-season and playoff games for the club this past season. He was joined on the ice Thursday by a few of his former Eagles teammates, including Cutter Gauthier and Will Smith.<\/p>\n

Milano skating is notable as the 29-year-old forward was kept out of the Capitals\u2019 lineup for virtually the entire 2024-25 campaign, getting into just three games last fall before an upper-body injury prematurely ended his season in early November.<\/p>\n

The New York native appeared to make progress toward a return, skating again<\/a>\u00a0by December,\u00a0rejoining practice<\/a>\u00a0by January, and\u00a0shedding his no-contact jersey<\/a>\u00a0in February. However, he\u00a0suffered a \u201cfairly significant setback<\/a>\u201d in early March and did not return to the ice for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Capitals general manager Chris Patrick told reporters in July<\/a> that Milano \u201cfeels good\u201d and is expected to participate in the team\u2019s training camp in a couple of months.<\/p>\n

Before his shortened 2024-25 season, Milano recorded 23 points (15g, 8a) and played 49 games in 2023-24. He has one year remaining on his contract with the Caps at a $1.9 million cap hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals had some representation on the ice at the 2025 Shoulder Check Showcase charity game on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-24546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546","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=24546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}