{"id":59936,"date":"2025-08-05T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59936\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:26:15","slug":"what-are-the-blackhawks-getting-in-no-29-overall-pick-mason-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59936\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Blackhawks getting in No. 29 overall pick Mason West?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/west-Edina-Varsity-Hockey-Jack-Casebolt.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: Edina Varsity Hockey (Jack Casebolt)<\/p>\n<p>One of the more aggressive moves made by Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson at this year\u2019s draft came near the end of the first round, when he packaged a few picks together to nab a third first-rounder and used it to draft a two-sport standout who\u2019s going to be a high school senior this fall in Mason West. <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of physical attributes to like about the Minnesota teenager, who turned 18 years old over this initial weekend of August. How well the other parts of his hockey game come together down the road will tell the tale of his athletic future, but we likely won\u2019t receive answers to any of those questions for a few more years, at least. <\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>Position:\u00a0Forward<\/p>\n<p>Age:\u00a018 (Aug. 3, 2007)\u200c\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Hometown:\u00a0Edina, MN<\/p>\n<p>Height:\u00a06-foot-6<\/p>\n<p>Weight:\u00a0218 pounds\u200c\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Shoots:\u00a0Right<\/p>\n<p>Team:\u00a0Fargo Force (USHL)<\/p>\n<p>Production:\u00a09 points (1 G, 8 A) in 10 regular season games; 0 points in 2 playoffs games; Also had 49 points (27 G, 22 A) in 31 games for Edina High School<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#gatedContentSignupBlock\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Edina Varsity Hockey (Jack Casebolt) One of the more aggressive moves made by Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-59936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}