The Flames reassigned winger prospect\u00a0Brennan Othmann\u00a0to AHL Calgary on Sunday, per a team announcement.<\/p>\n
Calgary acquired Othmann, the #16 overall pick in the 2021 draft, from the Rangers on deadline day in exchange for 2024 second-rounder\u00a0Jacob Battaglia<\/a>. The Blueshirts had been shopping Othmann, who was never able to push above a call-up\/fourth-line slot on the depth chart, dating back to the beginning of the season<\/a>, but ultimately didn\u2019t find the fit to move him as part of a larger deal. Instead, the Flames took him on as a more traditional change-of-scenery candidate while the Rangers still managed to recoup an even younger winger still with middle-six upside.<\/p>\n Othmann\u2019s early returns in the Flames organization haven\u2019t been overwhelmingly positive. Through 10 AHL games after the trade, he\u2019s still scoreless and has only managed five assists with a -7 rating. Calgary still decided to give him a shot late last month, playing him in back-to-back games against the Canucks and Avalanche to close their March schedule. He had a goal and an assist, averaging 11:04 per game, but he was used puzzlingly in a checking role (81.0 dZS% at 5-on-5), and his possession numbers suffered for it. The fact that Othmann managed seven shot attempts despite spending so much time in his own end is something to applaud, though.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old was scratched in back-to-back games last week, so it\u2019s of little surprise that the Flames have opted to get him back playing in the AHL instead of having him sit around as a healthy extra. Calgary has shown they\u2019re keen on rotating some of their younger bubble players into the lineup to close out another season without playoff action, recently recalling<\/a>\u00a0Aydar Suniev\u00a0and getting 2024 first-rounder\u00a0Matvei Gridin\u00a0into a top-six role.<\/p>\n Othmann will require waivers to head to the minors beginning next season. Calgary will need to decide whether his AHL production \u2013 41 goals and 90 points in 130 career games \u2013 is worth earmarking an NHL roster spot for him, regardless of his training camp performance, to avoid the risk of losing him for nothing in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flames reassigned winger prospect\u00a0Brennan Othmann\u00a0to AHL Calgary on Sunday, per a team announcement. Calgary acquired Othmann, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354309529757662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}