Brennan Othmann was getting ready to head to the rink in Hartford, when he got the call that he wouldn\u2019t be suiting up for the New York Rangers\u2019 AHL affiliate that night.<\/p>\n
Instead, he\u2019d been dealt West, to Calgary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A fresh start. A new city. And an opportunity this evening to show Flames brass what he\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually was getting my suit on for the game (on Trade Deadline day), because I didn’t get a call up until that point,\u201d Othmann explained Saturday morning. \u201cI texted one of my buddies, I was heading down to the car with getting a ride, and I said, \u201cHey, I just got traded to the Flames, so I’m not gonna be coming to the game tonight.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Just over three weeks later, Othmann is set to suit up in his first NHL contest with Calgary. Recalled Saturday morning from the AHL\u2019s Wranglers, the 23-year-old will skate on a line with Tyson Gross and Adam Klapka against the Canucks tonight.<\/p>\n
Othmann – selected three picks after Matt Coronato at No. 16 in the 2021 NHL Draft – is treating tonight, and by extension the rest of the season, like a tryout.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it’s late in the season, but you know, talking to Ryan (Head Coach Ryan Huska) and the staff, it’s just basically a tryout going onto next year and for each game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s kind of what I’m thinking of it, and when you’re not solidified as an NHL player yet, every day is kind of like a tryout, so you want to perform at your best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brennan Othmann was getting ready to head to the rink in Hartford, when he got the call that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-567168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}