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  • Adam Benak Shines at Wild's Prospect Showcase

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    Adam Benak showed up to the Minnesota Wild's prospect showcase this weekend and completely showed out. The 2025 fourth-round pick was going to potentially be overshadowed by the likes of Danila Yurov and Zeev Buium at this pre-season exhibition, but should be considered closer to that tier of future members of this team than before.

    The 5-foot-8 forward was motoring all over the ice. Breaking up plays, having his own scoring chances, and of course setting up a whole lot for his teammates.

     

    Benak is heading to the OHL's Brantford Bulldogs this upcoming season after playing last year with the USHL's Youngstown Phantoms. He is slowly climbing the ladder to potentially be one of those players where his size doesn't hold him back. And the Wild got him in the fourth round. Nuts.

    • More on Benak and how both the Wild and the player are confident that he will prove a whole lot of people wrong. [The Athletic]
    • We might have to start thinking about this world. What would a post-Kaprizov Wild team look like? [Hockey Wilderness]

    Off the trail...

    • After losing his job with the Dallas Stars, Peter Deboer regrets singling out Jake Oettinger as a reason why they lost in the playoffs. Yeah, duh. [TheScore]
    • A trade and we haven't even started training camps. The Philadelphia Flyers have sent 6-foot-8 netminder Ivan Fedotov to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a sixth-round pick. Flyers clear up some of their goaltending depth chart and Blue Jackets get a goalie. [NHL.com]
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    mnfaninnc

    Fedotov sounds like he's built like the Walrus in that commercial.

    I'm looking for news today about Kaprizov's contract. Strange, no dates released yet for training camp? Seems awful casual.

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    Pewterschmidt
    40 minutes ago, Scalptrash said:

    He better hit the gym hard, he looks a lot smaller than Rossi.

    He’s short but he’s more Marchand than Rossi

     yurov is more Rossi than Marchand

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    raithis

    I liked what I saw from Benak, especially hustling on that takeaway that led directly to the assist for Kumpulainen.

    He played really well on Friday too.

    I was also liking what I was seeing from Amidovski.

    Leskovar stood out, but he looks like he could use a few sandwiches and some time in the gym to broaden out a bit.

    Buium stood out quite a bit, but I started watching expecting he would.

    Players like Kumpulainen and Yurov looked all right, but I was hoping they would stand out a bit more.  I'm not underwhelmed.  They seem like sound players, but I'm hoping that what I was seeing was just the two of them getting a feel for the difference in rink size, spacing, and angles.

    Should be interesting to see if both Benak and Amidovski can continue to develop and still be effective in higher leagues.  Looking good in the prospect showcase is great and all, but defensive structures/systems are a bit lacking when throwing a bunch of kids together like that.

    They've piqued my interest a bit for the moment anyway.  Bankier got my attention last year and I'm still kind of high on him because of it.  Hoping he continues to improve too.

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