{"id":47909,"date":"2025-07-08T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47909\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T05:42:08","slug":"minnesota-wild-draft-pick-adam-benak-happy-with-ushl-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47909\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild draft pick Adam Ben\u00e1k happy with USHL decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cAt first blush you see the size, but he\u2019s a dynamic offensive player,\u201d said Judd Brackett, the Wild\u2019s director of amateur scouting. \u201cGreat vision. Skill, speed, tenacious at that size, and he\u2019s continued to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Ben\u00e1k is listed at 5-7 and 164 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cIt\u2019s more than the body,\u201d Brackett said. \u201cIt\u2019s more the brain. He knows where to be. He can stay out of harm\u2019s way. He can create. Tremendous vision. He\u2019s a playmaker first, but he can finish, too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">His favorite players have similar statures, Ben\u00e1k mentioning Utah\u2019s Clayton Keller (5-10) and Tampa Bay\u2019s Brayden Point (5-11) as the ones who influenced his quick, crafty style. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI don\u2019t take it as a disadvantage,\u201d Ben\u00e1k said of his height. \u201cIt\u2019s an advantage for me because I can be more skilled with the puck. I can be faster than the bigger guys. So, I take it as an advantage, so I want to prove that size doesn\u2019t matter for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt first blush you see the size, but he\u2019s a dynamic offensive player,\u201d said Judd Brackett, the Wild\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-47909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816021042625156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}