# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matty-beniers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:29:29.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matty-beniers"
name: "Matty Beniers"
slug: "matty-beniers"
description: "Matthew Beniers is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center and alternate captain for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Kraken drafted Beniers second overall in the 2021 NHL entry draft with their first-ever selection in an entry draft. He played college ice hockey at Michigan. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year in 2023."
tagline: "American ice hockey player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2025-05-04_Deutschland_gegen_USA_(Eishockey-L%C3%A4nderspiel)_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "2002-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.83
  momentum:             0.5807317891910037
  historical:           12.026944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D1%96_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%80%D1%81"
    title: "Метті Бенірс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Beniers"
    title: "Matthew Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "マティ・ベニアーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metijs_Benierss"
    title: "Metijs Benierss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Бенирс, Мэтти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matty_Beniers"
    title: "Matty Beniers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107035397"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump