Rookie Rangers prospect Brett Berard a key to Wolf Pack’s hopes of making a championship run

WEST HARTFORD — The AHL can be an unforgiving place for its youngest hockey players. Everywhere one looks, or skates, there are veterans, hungry to get to the big leagues after years in the minors, or hungrier still to make it back for one more chance.

So when left winger Brett Berard, 21, started in Hartford with the Wolf Pack, fresh out of college, he had much to learn, much to prove. But one thing was clear in a hurry: “He has a no-fear attitude about making plays,” said Wolf Pack coach Steve Smith.