The work hasn’t stopped for Washington Capitals forward Ryan Leonard, who is representing Team USA at the IIHF World Championships in Switzerland.<\/p>\n
And despite a loss to the host country in the preliminary round Friday, he did what he could to stand out.<\/p>\n
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Leonard led all forwards with 17:12 minutes of ice time and had one shot on goal, while totaling four penalty minutes and helping quarterback the power play in a 3-1 loss to Switzerland. Alex Steeves had the lone goal for the Americans.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old got into it with former Capitals prospect Damian Riat at the end of the game, and had a run-in with Nico Hischier earlier on in the matchup. He received two minutes for roughing and an extra two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n
Leonard, who is coming off a 20-goal, 45-point campaign, finished eighth in Calder Trophy voting this past week as the NHL’s rookie of the year. He received one third-place vote, four fourth-place votes and 19 fifth-place votes.<\/p>\n
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Amid injuries and players opting for rest, Leonard is the only Washington skater playing in the tournament.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Team Canada, Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery serving as an assistant and goaltending coach Scott Murray also on board, rallied for a 5-3 win in their preliminary game against Sweden on Friday. Connor Brown had the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n
Team USA will face Great Britain and Canada will take on Italy as both teams continue with the preliminary round on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work hasn’t stopped for Washington Capitals forward Ryan Leonard, who is representing Team USA at the IIHF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[2664,191,957,5,303,4,1602,54862,516,6711,3255,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-576017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-alex-steeves","tag-capitals","tag-connor-brown","tag-hockey","tag-iihf-world-championships","tag-nhl","tag-nico-hischier","tag-preliminary-round","tag-ryan-leonard","tag-switzerland","tag-team-usa","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116581894936534907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}