{"id":407376,"date":"2026-01-12T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:10:07","slug":"new-york-rangers-reassign-anton-blidh-recall-brennan-othmann-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407376\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Reassign Anton Blidh, Recall Brennan Othmann \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

4:15 p.m.: The Rangers have indeed recalled Othmann to their NHL roster, according to a team announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The move returns the Rangers\u2019 2021 first-round pick back to their NHL roster for the first time in 2026. Othmann was a healthy scratch for his final two games on the NHL roster in December, but could draw back into head coach Mike Sullivan\u2019s lineup at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an extremely important season for the 23-year-old\u2019s future in the Rangers organization. He\u2019s a pending restricted free agent and has thus far failed to make an impact at the NHL level.<\/p>\n

Considered a top prospect coming out of the OHL thanks to the coveted combination of offensive skill and sandpaper in his game, Othmann has had an up-and-down time in the pro ranks. He\u2019s been a strong contributor at the AHL level.<\/p>\n

He was an All-Star in 2023-24, his rookie season as a pro, and 83 points in 117 games. But in his 31 games at the NHL level, he\u2019s been unable to make quite the same impact. He\u2019s managed just two assists as an NHLer, and is still waiting on his first NHL goal.<\/p>\n

This recall gives Othmann another chance to prove himself at the NHL level, and prove he has what it takes to remain in New York\u2019s long-term plans moving forward.<\/p>\n

The Athletic\u2019s Chris Johnston included<\/a> Othmann in the No. 34 slot of his trade board last week, writing that while the Rangers are \u201cnot in a position at which they feel they have to move\u201d Othmann, they\u2019d nonetheless consider offers for him.<\/p>\n

2:25 p.m.: The New York Rangers announced<\/a> today that veteran forward Anton Blidh<\/a> has been reassigned to the club\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.<\/p>\n

The move leaves the Rangers without a healthy extra forward on their roster, but Colin Stephenson of Newsday reported<\/a> that Brennan Othmann<\/a> could be recalled to the Rangers at some point in the near future.<\/p>\n

Blidh was recalled at the start of the New Year as part of the Rangers\u2019 response to several injuries up front, most notably one suffered by captain J.T. Miller<\/a>. In his recall, which lasted a little over 10 days, Blidh was dressed twice and served as a healthy scratch for three contests, including yesterday\u2019s deflating 10-2 loss to the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n

In his two NHL games, Blidh averaged 7:45 time on ice. He didn\u2019t land on the scoresheet, but tallied four hits in each contest. The 30-year-old veteran hasn\u2019t been at the top of the list of priority call-up options since arriving in the Rangers organization in 2023, but he\u2019s nonetheless found a way to stick around and earn a small number of call-ups.<\/p>\n

While this most recent call-up represents two of his three total games played as a Ranger, he\u2019s been a healthy scratch on other occasions. His physicality and work rate, as well as over 80 games of NHL experience, make him someone who the Rangers trust to fill in as a fourth liner when injuries call for it. Last April, New York signed Blidh to a two-year contract extension, one that runs through 2026-27. The deal carries a two-way structure, league-minimum NHL salary, and $385K guarantee across both years.<\/p>\n

Reassigned today, Blidh will return to Hartford where he\u2019s struggled to score at the same rate he put up last season. Blidh managed 19 goals, 36 points in 71 games last year, but has just seven points in 28 games this season. The Wolf Pack have struggled, as a whole, to put pucks in the net, ranking near the bottom of the AHL in goals scored in 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4:15 p.m.: The Rangers have indeed recalled Othmann to their NHL roster, according to a team announcement. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,215963,64,63,3617,575,85],"class_list":["post-407376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-anton-blidh","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}