{"id":280899,"date":"2024-03-27T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280899"},"modified":"2024-03-27T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:38:20","slug":"minnesota-wild-signs-defenseman-jack-peart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=280899","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Signs Defenseman Jack Peart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SAINT PAUL, Minn.&nbsp;<em>\u2013<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman&nbsp;<strong>Jack Peart<\/strong>&nbsp;to a three-year, entry-level contract starting with the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peart, 20 (5\/15\/2003), skated in 38 games for St. Cloud State (NCAA) this season, recording 14 points (3-11=14), 65 shots on goal, 18 penalty minutes (PIM) and 49 blocked shots. The 6-foot, 195-pound native of Grand Rapids, Minn., ranked third among team defensemen in points, goals and assists this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peart played in 108 games for St. Cloud State over a span of three years (2021-24), recording 55 points (8-47=55), 64 PIM, 147 shots, 113 blocked shots and a plus-15 rating. Peart set career-highs in points (3-21=24) and assists during the 2022-23 season. He skated for the U.S. National Junior team at the 2022 and 2023 IIHF World Junior Championships, collecting five points (0-5=5) and a plus-3 rating in 11 games and won a bronze medal in 2023. Peart was named the 2021 Mr. Hockey Award winner and also won the Reed Larson award, given to the states top senior boys\u2019 high school defenseman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wild selected Peart in the second round (54th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn.&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman&nbsp;Jack Peart&nbsp;to a three-year, entry-level contract starting with the 2024-25 season. Peart, 20 (5\/15\/2003), skated in 38 games for St. Cloud State (NCAA) this season, recording 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":278924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280900,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280899\/revisions\/280900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}