{"id":789345,"date":"2026-07-09T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789345\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:17:11","slug":"zam-plante-offers-talent-real-questions-for-the-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/789345\/","title":{"rendered":"Zam Plante offers talent, real questions for the Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Zam Plante, captain of Team Rutherford, was MVP of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI thought he stood out probably more than anyone today, with just his creativity, his hockey sense,\u201d said Tom Kostopoulos, Penguins Director of Player Development. \u201cAnd then he can finish, he can make plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Kostopoulos then offered this fun tidbit about the 2022 fifth-round pick, who had 20 goals and 51 points in 40 games last season with Minnesota-Duluth while playing with his younger brother Max, who won the Hobey Baker Award:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cOne of the interesting and cool things about development camp is we get to know these kids off the ice too, so we put them in little competitions all throughout the week. He won the cornhole tournament. We\u2019re at a bowling alley, he won\u2019t sit down from the bowling. We do trivia, he\u2019s all over the answers. Seems like anything we play, he\u2019s involved in, and guys gravitate to him, and he just seems to like competing and winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Plante had some real chemistry with 2026 fourth-round pick Pierce Mbyugi, as they connected on several plays. \u201cYeah, he\u2019s a little sniper. He\u2019s fun to play with,\u201d Plante said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zam Plante, captain of Team Rutherford, was MVP of the day. \u201cI thought he stood out probably more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,1325,575,85],"class_list":["post-789345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}