{"id":139092,"date":"2025-09-07T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139092\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:45:35","slug":"minnesota-wild-sign-former-washington-capitals-forward-brett-leason-to-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139092\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild sign former Washington Capitals forward Brett Leason to professional tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Elizabeth Kong\/RMNB\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Former Washington Capitals prospect\u00a0Brett Leason is getting another opportunity to continue his NHL career.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old right winger signed on to a professional tryout with the Minnesota Wild on Friday, per a release from the team<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Leason spent the previous three seasons with the Anaheim Ducks, logging 17 points (5g, 12a) in 62 games last year. <\/p>\n

Heading into training camp, the 6-foot-5, 218 pound winger gives the Wild more depth in the bottom six and on the penalty kill, where he logged the third-most minutes among Ducks forwards (106:01) when the team was down a man last season. Leason joins former Capitals forwards Marcus Johansson and Nicolas Aube-Kubel who are signed to Minnesota\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

Leason was originally drafted by the Caps in the second round (56th overall) during the 2019 NHL Draft. He played in 36 regular-season games during the 2021-22 campaign, recording six points (3g, 3a) and 8:57 of ice time per game. He also made an appearance in one Stanley Cup Playoffs contest that same year.<\/p>\n

The Capitals placed him and forward Axel-Jonsson Fjallby on waivers during final roster cuts ahead of the 2022-23 season<\/a>, where he was claimed by the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Leason has recorded 54 points (25g, 29a) in 220 career NHL games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Elizabeth Kong\/RMNB Former Washington Capitals prospect\u00a0Brett Leason is getting another opportunity to continue his NHL career. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-139092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}