Tristan Broz played two seasons at Blake High School and also played for the Fargo Force. Photo courtesy of University of Denver Athletic Association.Denver – forward tristan bros A player from the University of Denver hockey team has signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins starting in 2024-25, the NHL club announced Saturday. He will spend the remainder of the 2023-24 season participating in an amateur tryout with the Wilkes-Barre Penguins of the American Hockey League.
Broz, 21, set career highs last season with 16 goals, 24 assists and 40 points. He tied for third in goals and fourth in points for the Pioneers last weekend, helping the program win its NCAA-record 10th national championship.
The Bloomington, Minn., native scored four game-winning goals and two points in overtime during the NCAA Tournament to rank third at Denver, becoming the first Pioneer to accomplish this feat and earning Frozen Four and Northeast Regional All-Star honors. Earned both tournament team honors. He scored in double overtime in the regional semifinal against Massachusetts on March 28, the longest tournament game in DU hockey history, and also scored in the national semifinal against Boston College on April 11.
Broz was Denver's top center for much of the final week of the season, scoring 19 points (7 goals, 12 assists) in the final 17 games of the season. He again had a plus-20 rating and nine power play points (2g/7a) this year.
In the 2023-24 season, he twice scored a career-high four points, with two goals and two assists against Niagara on January 6th, and one goal and a career-high three assists against Miami on February 24th. did. He had 11 multi-point appearances during the season, including a 3-point shooting performance with a trio of helpers on March 2 at St. Cloud State.
Also during the season, he tied the longest scoring streak in his career with five consecutive points from November 17th to December. He appeared on January 1, 2023 (3g/5a) and set a career-best consecutive assist record by scoring in four consecutive games from November 17 to 25, 2023. Broz played in his 100th collegiate game at the University of North Dakota on January 26, ending his NCAA season. He had 32 goals and 47 assists for 79 points in 119 career games.
Broz began his collegiate career at the University of Minnesota, scoring 11 points (5g/6a) and helping the Gophers reach the Frozen Four in 2021-22 before transferring to Denver in the summer of 2022. . He scored 10 goals and 18 assists the following season with the Pioneers in 2022-23, setting his then-career high.
He scored his first career overtime goal and first win against Denver on December 9, 2022 against Minnesota-Duluth, and had one goal and three assists on December 17, 2022 against Lindenwood. Broz scored a career-high four goals against Miami on January 14, 2023, including consecutive goals in the third period, becoming the first Denver player to do so since Kevin Duell on February 21, 2003. It was a game in which they scored four goals. Michigan Tech University.
Broz was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins with the 58th overall pick in the second round of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
