{"id":857356,"date":"2026-08-14T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857356\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:50:08","slug":"top-prospects-for-minnesota-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857356\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospects for Minnesota Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How acquired:\u00a0Selected with No. 153 pick in 2022 NHL Draft<\/p>\n<p>2025-26 season:\u00a0Minnesota (NHL): 2 GP, 0-0-0; Iowa (AHL): 59 GP, 7-29-36<\/p>\n<p>Spacek (6-foot, 174) got a short taste of the NHL last season, playing 11:59 in his debut for the Wild, a 6-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Jan. 15. He played one more game, logging 9:31 in a 4-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old then had one assist in five games with Team Czechia at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think one of the biggest highlights is defending (Connor) McDavid and (Nathan) MacKinnon (of Team Canada) on one line,&#8221; Spacek said Feb. 27. &#8220;That&#8217;s definitely going to stick in the back of my head. &#8230; It&#8217;s pretty fast. They&#8217;re super fast on the ice. Just have to be super aware. Overall, I think I did good against them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spacek signed a one-year, two-way contract July 9 worth $850,000 at the NHL level. He&#8217;s dependable, physical and capable of chipping in offensively, and is expected to be one of Iowa&#8217;s top defensemen with a chance to push for NHL playing time.<\/p>\n<p>Projected NHL arrival:\u00a0This season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired:\u00a0Selected with No. 153 pick in 2022 NHL Draft 2025-26 season:\u00a0Minnesota (NHL): 2 GP, 0-0-0; Iowa (AHL):&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-857356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}