Article: There's More Than Meets the Eye With Adam Benak

[Luke Sims]

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[Outskated]

Brad Marchand is 5'8"/180.  This a good pick in the 4th round. These players  from the 4th round down have low chances of ever playing in the NHL.  So, take a high skill, smaller player and see what happens is a decent 'risk'.  Chances are he's 3-5 years away and you just don't know what's going to happen.  Time will tell

[Patrick]

Skill, Speed and IQ.  Its a nice pick. 

[Pewterschmidt]

Little bro is built like Shrek so he might be a fire hydrant out there, difficult to knock off the puck.  2nd to Milne as my favorite dark horse prospect

[Enforceror]

I'm excited to see him play in the prospect tournament (if he does). 

Seems like this could have been a really good pick. Time will tell. Good luck kid... or better yet, make your own luck.

[mnfaninnc]

Think with me for a moment. What if this kid has a growth spurt like Tyler Graovac did? Then what would we have?

Some guys are just late growers. It would be nice if he hit a spurt and filled out. But if not, just bulk up and fill out. 5'8" 185 is still a pretty wide kid.

[Enforceror]

22 minutes ago, mnfaninnc said:

Think with me for a moment. What if this kid has a growth spurt like Tyler Graovac did? Then what would we have?

Some guys are just late growers. It would be nice if he hit a spurt and filled out. But if not, just bulk up and fill out. 5'8" 185 is still a pretty wide kid.

I was thinking the same. If he did add some height, it might take him an extra couple years to fully grow into the frame though. I saw speed mentioned more than once as an attribute of his, hopefully a growth spurt wouldn't diminish his wheels.