{"id":59844,"date":"2025-08-11T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59844\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:25:09","slug":"buy-or-sell-every-nhl-lottery-team-improving-in-the-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59844\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy or Sell Every NHL Lottery Team Improving in the 2025-26 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Sharks have missed the playoffs for six straight seasons and sank all the way to the bottom of the NHL barrel in 2024-25, finishing nine points behind the 31st-ranked Chicago Blackhawks with just 52 points. But it&#8217;s not all bad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">A stockpile of recent picks that included two rookies from last season, Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith, was supplemented by OHL forward Michael Misa at No. 2 overall. So the offense is on the rise. Goaltending will be the linchpin, though, and the chances for improvement truly hinge on whether Alex Nedeljkovic, acquired from Pittsburgh for a 2028 pick, can steady the goal crease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sharks have missed the playoffs for six straight seasons and sank all the way to the bottom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-59844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}