Returning regular · 2025-26

Brett Berard

Montréal Canadiens · LW · L shot · age 24 at the dated snapshot.

Team: MTL
Lane: LW
Age: 24

Production and deployment

How the points were built

Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.

Games13

Goals0

Assists0

Points0

Even strength0all even-strength points

Power play0

Short handed0

Empty net—

5v5 points / 600

Average TOI10:33

PP TOI0:00

PK TOI0:00

Organizational context

4 LW regulars in MTL

The all-team median is 4. MTL’s farm system ranks #5 in the maintained two-board consensus.

Thin lane

Questions a GM still has to answer

How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?

Comparables at the same age

Who looked like this at 20 to 23

Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.

Comparables found8

Went on to two or more NHL seasons5 of 8

Their later peak (adjusted pts/game)0.40median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 16 USHL 0.44 → age 17 USHL 1.39 → age 18 NCAA 0.53 → age 19 NCAA 1.06 → age 20 NCAA 0.67 → age 21 AHL 0.68 → age 22 NHL 0.29 → age 23 NHL 0.00

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Nolan FooteL · matched at ages 20, 21, 22	0.05	age 24 AHL 0.34 → age 25 NHL 0.08
Matt LuffR · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.05	age 24 NHL 0.26 → age 25 NHL 0.21 → age 26 AHL 0.32 → age 27 AHL 0.41 → age 28 AHL 0.42
Oskar SundqvistC · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.05	age 24 NHL 0.12 → age 25 NHL 0.42 → age 26 NHL 0.40 → age 27 NHL 0.32 → age 28 NHL 0.37
Eric RobinsonL · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.07	age 24 NHL 0.24 → age 25 NHL 0.32 → age 26 NHL 0.40 → age 27 NHL 0.33 → age 28 NHL 0.23
Brian HalonenL · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.08	age 24 AHL 0.24 → age 25 AHL 0.38 → age 26 AHL 0.29 → age 27 NHL 0.13
Parker KellyC · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.08	age 24 NHL 0.23 → age 25 NHL 0.24 → age 26 NHL 0.43
Curtis DouglasC · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.08	age 24 AHL 0.17 → age 25 AHL 0.17 → age 26 NHL 0.07
Mackenzie MacEachernL · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.08	age 24 AHL 0.10 → age 25 NHL 0.17 → age 26 NHL 0.20 → age 27 NHL 0.10 → age 28 NHL 0.14

Reading it

If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.

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