Brett Berard’s ‘eye-opening’ first NHL season a valuable Rangers blueprint
NY Post
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Brett Berard has displayed both a fiery passion and an admirable patience in the last six months of his hockey career, which reached the NHL level for the first time at the end of November.
He’s played 23 games with the Rangers so far this season and scored four goals, each appearing to feel like his very first based on the sheer joy that radiates off him and his jubilant celebrations.
“I don’t really know if I have the words for what I expected,” Berard told The Post on Tuesday morning from his stall in the Canada Life Centre visiting locker room, which was right next to future Hall of Fame goalie Jonathan Quick’s. “But it’s been an absolute blast being here. It’s every kid’s dream to play in the NHL, so just trying to take it all in. I really don’t know if it’s hit me to the full extent yet. It’s kind of everything you dream of.
“I don’t really know if I have the words for what I expected,” Berard told The Post on Tuesday morning before the Rangers fell to the Jets 2-1. “But it’s been an absolute blast being here. It’s every kid’s dream to play in the NHL, so just trying to take it all in. I really don’t know if it’s hit me to the full extent yet. It’s kind of everything you dream of.
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