{"id":452188,"date":"2026-02-01T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:30:07","slug":"minten-named-nhl-rookie-of-the-month-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452188\/","title":{"rendered":"Minten named NHL Rookie of the Month for January"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Boston Bruins center Fraser Minten<\/a>, who topped all rookies with 8-6\u201414 and a +12 rating in 14 games, has been named the NHL\u2019s \u201cRookie of the Month\u201d for January.<\/p>\n

Minten edged Washington Capitals right wing Justin Sourdif<\/a> (7-7\u201414 in 13 GP), Anaheim Ducks right wing Beckett Sennecke<\/a> (6-7\u201413 in 14 GP), New York Islanders defenseman Matthew Schaefer<\/a> (6-6\u201412 in 15 GP), and Montreal Canadiens teammates Ivan Demidov<\/a> (1-11\u201412 in 16 GP)and Jakub Dobes<\/a> (6-0-0, 2.97 GAA, .893 SV%) for the honor.<\/p>\n

Minten, who is set to play in his first outdoor NHL game during tonight\u2019s 2026 Navy Federal Credit Union NHL Stadium Series<\/a> in Tampa (6:30 p.m. ET, ESPN, SN, TVAS), also placed among the top January rookies in goals (1st; 8), even-strength goals (1st; 7), even-strength points (t-2nd; 11), power-play points (t-2nd; 3) and assists (t-4th; 6).<\/p>\n

He began the month by notching his second career multi-goal game, capped by his second career overtime winner, while visiting his hometown Vancouver Canucks Jan. 3 (2-0\u20142). Minten produced three other multi-point performances during the month, including his first two career three-point efforts: Jan. 10 vs. NYR (2-1\u20143) and Jan. 29 vs. PHI (1-2\u20143).<\/p>\n

A second-round pick (38th overall by TOR) in the 2022 NHL Draft, Minten\u2019s eight goals marked the most by a Bruins rookie in a single calendar month since January 2011, when Brad Marchand<\/a> also scored eight (8-4\u201412 in 14 GP). Only five rookies in Boston\u2019s 101-year history have registered more in a single month: Ken Hodge Jr.<\/a> (11 in February 1991), Jimmy Herberts<\/a> (10 in January 1925), Barry Pederson<\/a> (10 in December 1981), Roy Conacher<\/a> (9 in February 1939) and Bob Miller<\/a> (9 in December 1977).<\/p>\n

Minten additionally became the first Bruins rookie with at least 14 points in a calendar month since December 2017, when Danton Heinen<\/a> totaled 5-9\u201414 (14 GP). The last Boston rookie with more in one month: Brad Boyes in March 2006 (8-11\u201419 in 16 GP).<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Minten, who entered January with 6-9\u201415 through his first 41 appearances of the season, now sits among the top rookies in plus\/minus (1st; +20), shooting percentage (1st; 19.4% \u2013 minimum: 1 SOG\/GP), even-strength goals (3rd; 13), goals (4th; 14), even-strength points (4th; 25), game-winning goals (t-4th; 2), points (6th; 29), assists (t-6th; 15) and even-strength assists (t-6th; 12) through 55 total games in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Minten \u2013 who joins Schaefer (October), Minnesota Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt<\/a> (November) and Demidov (December) as a recipient this season \u2013 is the first Bruins player selected as a \u201cRookie of the Month\u201d since goaltender Jeremy Swayman<\/a> in February 2022. Minten also is the first Boston skater in 28 years to receive the honor, following left wing Sergei Samsonov<\/a> in January 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Boston Bruins center Fraser Minten, who topped all rookies with 8-6\u201414 and a +12 rating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-452188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452188","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=452188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}