Brett Leonhardt

Brett Leonhardt (born September 21, 1982) is a former ice hockey goaltender for the Kitchener Dutchmen of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL), the State University of New York at Oswego of the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC), and Neumann College of ECAC West. He is currently an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He suited up twice as an emergency backup goaltender (EBUG) for the Washington Capitals, on December 12, 2008, and November 29, 2013.

Career Leonhardt was a web producer with the Capitals from the fall of 2007 until February 2011, when he left for a video editing job with the NHL in Toronto. He returned to the Capitals in 2012 as their video coach.

As a coach, he won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in 2018. Leonhardt was promoted to Assistant Coach-Video starting the Washington Capitals 2018–19 season. However, Varlamov was with the Bears in San Antonio, Texas and was unable to make it to Washington in time to start the game as the backup goaltender. Varlamov arrived 9:03 into the first period and replaced Leonhardt as Johnson's backup for the remainder of the game. At tall, had Leonhardt played in the game, he would have tied Ben Bishop as the tallest goalie in NHL history.

Career statistics Season Team League GP W L T MIN GA SA SO GAA SV% 2003–04 Oswego Lakers SUNYAC 3 1 0 0 128:41 3 52 0 1.40 .942 2004–05 Oswego Lakers SUNYAC 10 7 1 2 609:19 27 295 1 2.66 .908 2005–06 Neumann Knights ECAC West 4 2 1 0 200:00 10 98 0 3.00 .898 2006–07 Neumann Knights ECAC West 4 3 0 0 139:36 5 54 0 2.15 .907 College totals 21 13 2 0 1,077:36 45 499 1 2.51 .917