2022-23: Appeared in 36 games … tied for second on the team in scoring with 24 points on 10 goals and 14 assists … landed a team-high 129 shots on goal … +5 rating … tallied two game-winning and two power-play goals … boasted seven multi-point efforts, including a season-high three points and two goals against UMass (11/4) and a goal and two assists at Merrimack (1/13) … scored game-winning overtime goal at UMass (11/5) … also scored goals against UConn (11/12), Vermont (11/18-19), UMass (2/3), UMass Lowell (2/17) and Boston University (3/3) … named Hockey East Player of the Week (11/21) … posted six goals and five assists over eight games during the month of November … signed an entry-level contract with the New York Rangers at the conclusion of the season … appeared in three regular season games with Hartford (AHL) … participated in the New York Rangers’ Development Camp.
2021-22: Appeared in 36 games … led the team in goals (18) and points (38) … landed 109 shots on goal … +10 rating with team-best eight power-play goals and six game-winning goals – led Hockey East in those categories … recorded 10 multi-point games … registered a point in 26 games … scored two goals against Army West Point (10/2) and Maine (2/26), including the overtime winner … posted back-to-back 1-2-3 performances against Dartmouth (11/26) and Brown (11/27) … season-high seven shots on goal against Army West Point (10/2) … participating in 2022 World Junior Championship before the tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19 … Hockey East Player of the Week (11/29) … Hockey East Player of the Month (November) … Walter Brown Award Semifinalist … Third Team Hockey East Selection … New England Division I All-Star … Robert Gaudreau and Gates Orlando Award winner for the team’s highest goal and point scorer ... notched one goal in five games played at the 2022 World Junior Championships.
2020-21: Appeared in 19 games ... totaled 10 points on five goals and five assists ... scored first career goal at BU (1/8) ... also scored goals against UNH (1/31), Merrimack (2/6), UConn (3/14) and UMass (3/17) ... season-long four-game point streak from 1/31-2/12 (2-2-4) ... finished the season with a -3 rating and 48 shots on goal ... won gold with the U.S. National Junior Team at the 2021 World Junior Championship where he posted one goal, four assists and a +8 rating ... drafted by the New York Rangers in the fifth round (#134) in the 2020 NHL Draft.
BEFORE PROVIDENCE: Recorded 16 goals, 18 assists in 41 GP with U.S. U18 Team in 2019-20 ... ranked #45 by NHL Central Scouting for NA Skaters for the 2020 NHL Draft ... Named to WJC Summer Showcase ... registered a goal and an assist in the 2020 BioSteel All-American Prospects Game ... First Team All-State at Bishop Hendricken (2017-18).
PERSONAL: Born on September 9, 2002 … son of David and Lynne Berard ... David (PC '92) played men's hockey and returned to Providence for his fourth stint, hired as the Associate AD for Men's and Women's Hockey in May of 2021 ... he also had three stints on the Providence College men's hockey staff as an Assistant Coach (1994-96 & 1998-2011) and the Director of Hockey Operations (2013-14) ... Lynne (PC '93) played field hockey for the Friars and is currently the President of Samsonite - North America. ... has a younger brother, Brady ... plans to major in Management.