{"id":533113,"date":"2026-03-11T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:57:11","slug":"rangers-reassign-brett-berard-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533113\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Reassign Brett Berard \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

9:30 PM:\u00a0Berard\u2019s time with the big club was brief, as he is headed back to AHL Hartford, according to a team announcement<\/a>. New York shut out Calgary tonight, with the 23-year-old a healthy scratch. The club now has no extra forwards, so another domino is expected to fall before Thursday\u2019s game at Winnipeg. J.T. Miller<\/a> could be due to return from injured reserve.<\/p>\n

12:40 PM: The Rangers swapped out Brendan Brisson<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Brett Berard<\/a>\u00a0on their active roster, the team announced. Brisson heads back to AHL Hartford after being recalled twice in the last month, while Berard, a fellow left-winger, returns to the roster after being sent down from his last recall in late February.<\/p>\n

Brisson, 24, had appeared in 24 games with the Golden Knights over the past two seasons before New York acquired him for\u00a0Reilly Smith<\/a>\u00a0at last year\u2019s deadline. He\u2019s made just three NHL appearances since the deal, all coming in the last two weeks. He\u2019s managed an assist, a -1 rating, and three shot attempts while averaging 10:35 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

The 29th overall pick in the first round by Vegas back in 2020, Brisson was a flat-out star at the University of Michigan and showed real potential in his first couple of AHL seasons, including eight points in a 15-game call-up to the Knights in 2023-24. His game has gone completely off the rails ever since. In 110 AHL games since the beginning of last year, he\u2019s put up a more pedestrian 22-30\u201352 scoring line with a disastrous -48 rating.<\/p>\n

Despite his team-worst -15 mark this year, Brisson is still Hartford\u2019s fourth-leading scorer. He\u2019s an extremely cerebral winger but no longer appears to have the speed or physical drive to make a long-term NHL impact. The Blueshirts could continue to give him chances until they lose team control over him in 2029, but he\u2019s looking more like a higher-end minor-league piece than a depth NHL scorer.<\/p>\n

Berard, 23, never had lofty expectations like Brisson, but has taken a similar step back in his development as of late. A fifth-rounder in 2020, he had 25 goals for Hartford as a first-year pro in 2023-24 and worked his way into fringe top-nine minutes for the Rangers the following year, notching six goals and 10 points through his first 35 NHL games.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gone pointless in 13 big-league contests across a few call-ups this year, though, and his AHL production has been lacking as well. The 5\u20199\u2033 lefty has only six goals and 22 points in 39 games for Hartford with a -14 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9:30 PM:\u00a0Berard\u2019s time with the big club was brief, as he is headed back to AHL Hartford, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,258449,20888,3617,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-533113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brendan-brisson","tag-brett-berard","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533113","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=533113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}