{"id":877796,"date":"2026-08-31T04:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877796\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:06:10","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-2026-27-season-outlook-for-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877796\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats 2026-27 season outlook for Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another young standout in Washington&#8217;s top-nine forward group is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-leonard-8484186\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Leonard<\/a>, who had 45 points (20 goals, 25 assists) in 75 games as a rookie last season. Leonard ranked sixth in the NHL in max skating speed (24.26 mph) last season and was a standout among forwards in hardest shot (93.94 mph; 95th percentile), average shot speed (62.86 mph; 95th percentile), long-range shots on goal (26; 95th percentile), mid-range shots on goal (68; 90th percentile), mid-range goals (nine; 89th percentile) and 22-plus mph speed bursts (11; 91st percentile).<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s improved forward depth and strong defensive play, combined with the emergence of their young core, could give Ovechkin a chance to finish his career with another Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another young standout in Washington&#8217;s top-nine forward group is Ryan Leonard, who had 45 points (20 goals, 25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-877796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}