The New Jersey Devils have announced the signing of goaltender Tyler Brennan to a three-year, entry-level contract starting from the 2023-24 NHL season.
The team’s third selection and fourth-round choice, 102nd overall, at the 2022 NHL Draft, Brennan played in WHL for the Prince George Cougars in the last four-plus seasons. Brennan’s career-high 21 wins in the 2022-23 season with the Cougars helped them clinch consecutive postseason berths.
He was one of the 15 WHL netminders to earn more than 20 wins in the same campaign, posting victories in 21 of his 37 games, with a 21-10-3 record at the end of the season. The season before, despite being swept in the first round, Brennan’s fantastic performance with a 1.86 GAA and .954 SV% in the 2021-22 post-season didn’t go unnoticed. Brennan was viewed by some as the best goalie available in a weak 2022 crop of netminders.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Brennan was the only goaltender selected by New Jersey in the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal and the third goaltender overall taken in the draft after Topias Leinonen and Niklas Kokko. He has represented Canada on the international stage, earning a gold medal at the 2021 IIHF U-18 World Junior Championship as the team’s third goalie.
Brennan is eligible to play with the AHL’s Utica Comets next season or be returned to Prince George for a fifth full WHL season. He joins a solid complement of Devils goalie prospects that includes Akira Schmid and Nico Daws.