Position: | Left winger |
Shoots: | Left |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 2 |
Weight Lb: | 207 |
League: | MOL |
Former Teams: | Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák Alba Volán Székesfehérvár |
Ntl Team: | Hungary |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1987 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Career Start: | 2005 |
András Benk (born September 3, 1987) is a Hungarian professional ice hockey winger who plays for Újpesti TE in the MOL Liga. He joined after a 9-year tenure with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár in the Austrian Hockey League.[1]
He was member of the Hungarian national team which won promotion to the top division World Championship in 2008 after seventy years of absence.[2] Benk also made into the team in the next year, however, just in his second match of the championship, following a hit by Scottie Upshall, he suffered a broken collar bone and had to sit out the rest of the tournament.[3]