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Brennan Othmann

New York Rangers Left Wing

A first-round pick with 0 goals on 20 shots in 22 games, and 2 penalty minutes from a man drafted for his edge.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2023-24NYR30000000060.09:05
2024-25NYR22022+72000200.09:58
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—25022+72000260.09:52

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

0 goals and 2 assists in 22 games — 2 points, plus-7, at 9:58 a night on 2 penalty minutes.

20 shots and no goals. That is a small enough sample to mean very little on its own and it is the second season in a row that has produced nothing, which is how a first-round pick becomes a question.

The Finesse Game

The shot was the reason he was taken 16th overall and it has not translated. He gets to shooting positions and the release is a beat slow at NHL speed, which turns a scoring chance into a blocked attempt.

2 points in 25 career games is not a body of work and the junior record was genuinely good. The read is a player whose hands are fine and whose processing at this pace is not, which is the ordinary way a scoring winger fails to arrive.

The Physical Game

6-0 and 192, and the edge that was the other half of his draft profile has not come with him. 2 penalty minutes in 22 games is close to nothing for a player whose junior reputation was built on being difficult.

He takes the body and he does not hurt anybody, and he is not going to the front of the net often enough to be counted on there. A winger who is neither a scorer nor a nuisance has a very narrow path to a lineup.

The Intangibles

The 16th pick in 2021, four years in the organisation, and 25 NHL games at 22.

He is still young enough that none of this is settled, and there is nothing in two seasons of NHL evidence to point at. This is the point in a first-round winger’s career where the next twelve months decide it.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • punishinghe lacks it· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He takes the body and he does not hurt anybody, and he is not going to the front of the net often enough to be counted on there.”

  • net-fronthe lacks it· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “he is not going to the front of the net often enough to be counted on there.”

  • nastyhe lacks it· hard to play against; the edge is the point

    “2 penalty minutes in 22 games is close to nothing for a player whose junior reputation was built on being difficult.”

The numbers underneath

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 22 games

Top speed
21.5 mph
19th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.50 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.63 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
84.8 mph
42nd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 194 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

36 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.