Brett Howden

Canada Brett Howden


Date of birth	March 29, 1998
place of birth	Calgary , Alberta , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	88 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 27th position Tampa Bay Lightning

Career stations

2014-2018	Moose Jaw Warriors
2017	Syracuse crunch
since 2018	New York Rangers

Brett Howden (born March 29, 1998 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League since February 2018 .

Career

Brett Howden was born in Calgary and grew up in Oakbank , a suburb of Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba . In 2013 he was selected by the Moose Jaw Warriors in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in fifth position and made his debut for the team at the end of the 2013/14 season in the highest-ranking junior league in the region. In the 2015/16 season, the center recorded 64 scorer points in 68 games and was considered in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2016 in 27th place by the Tampa Bay Lightning . In the following season 2016/17 he took over the office of team captain with the Warriors, before he signed an entry contract with the Lightning in December 2016 . Towards the end of the season he made his professional debut with Tampa's farm team , the Syracuse Crunch , in the American Hockey League (AHL), but subsequently returned to the WHL for a final year after Moose Jaw.

Meanwhile, Howden, along with Wladislaw Namestnikow , Libor Hájek , a first-round vote for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft and another second-round vote was given to the New York Rangers in February 2018 . The latter should become one for the first draft round, provided the Lightning win the Stanley Cup in the next two years . In return, Ryan McDonagh and JT Miller moved to Tampa. As part of the preparation for the 2018/19 season Howden finally earned a place in the Rangers squad, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2018 .

International

At the international level, Howden gained its first experience in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in November , in which the team finished fifth. At U18 level, he won a bronze medal with the Canadian selection at the U18 World Championships 2015 and a gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 , before finishing fourth at the U18 World Championships in 2016 . The attacker then represented the Canadian U20 national team at the U20 World Cup 2018 and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2015 bronze medal at the U18 World Championship
2015 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2016 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2018 gold medal at the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013/14	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	5	1	0	1	± 0	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	68	22nd	24	46	-31	24	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	68	24	40	64	–7	61	10	4th	11	15th	± 0	4th
2016/17	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	58	38	43	81	+14	73	7th	2	1	3	-4	12
2016/17	Syracuse crunch	AHL	5	3	1	4th	+1	2	3	0	2	2	+1	0
2017/18	Moose Jaw Warriors	WHL	49	24	51	75	+28	42	14th	7th	8th	15th	+2	8th
2018/19	New York Rangers	NHL	66	6th	17th	23	-16	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New York Rangers	NHL	70	9	10	19th	–11	28	3	0	0	0	-3	4th
WHL overall			248	109	158	267	+4	202	31	13	20th	33	-2	24
NHL overall			136	15th	27	42	-27	42	3	0	0	0	-3	4th

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Canada White	WHC	5th place	5	2	1	3		4th
2015	Canada	U18 World Cup		3	2	1	3	± 0	0
2015	Canada	Hlinka Memorial		4th	0	1	1	± 0	4th
2016	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place	6th	5	3	8th	+2	8th
2018	Canada	U20 World Cup		7th	3	4th	7th	+9	4th
Juniors overall				25th	12	10	22nd		20th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

Personal

His older brother Quinton Howden (* 1992) is also a hockey player, played in the NHL for the Florida Panthers and Winnipeg Jets and represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics .

Web links

Player biography on the New York Rangers website
Brett Howden at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Bolts sign Brett Howden to 3-year entry-level deal. nhl.com, December 28, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 .
^ Rangers trade McDonagh, Miller to Lightning as rebuild begins. tsn.ca, February 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 (English).

Squad of the New York Rangers in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Howden, Brett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calgary , Alberta , Canada

[1] Bolts sign Brett Howden to 3-year entry-level deal. nhl.com, December 28, 2016, accessed October 26, 2018 .

[2] Rangers trade McDonagh, Miller to Lightning as rebuild begins. tsn.ca, February 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 (English).