[1] Following junior hockey in Brantford and Guelph, Reise enlisted in the navy where he played for the naval teams of Victoria, Halifax and HMCS CHIPPAWA in Winnipeg where he played on the 1945 Basil Baker trophy-winning team.

Leo Reise began his NHL career following the end of World War II playing six games with the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1945–46 NHL season.

Reise was the first son of a former NHL player to also join the league.

He finished his last two seasons, 1952–53 and 1953–54, with the New York Rangers, with whom his father had also concluded his NHL career.

After his hockey career Reise went on to running a plumbing business in the Hamilton area.