{"id":746856,"date":"2026-06-19T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746856\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:37:07","slug":"lightning-acquire-fifth-round-pick-in-2026-from-toronto-in-exchange-for-d-darren-raddysh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746856\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning acquire fifth-round pick in 2026 from Toronto in exchange for D Darren Raddysh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY\u00a0-\u202fThe Tampa Bay Lightning have\u00a0acquired\u00a0a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft from the Toronto Maple\u00a0Leafs\u00a0in exchange for defenseman Darren Raddysh, vice president and general manager Julien\u00a0BriseBois\u00a0announced today. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raddysh, 30, played in 73 games for Tampa Bay this season and established\u00a0a franchise record for goals in a single season by a defenseman with 22. The 6-foot-1, 202-pound blueliner led Lightning defensemen in goals, assists (48), points (70), power-play goals (10), power-play points (26)\u00a0and game-winning goals (6) in 2025-26. Raddysh has played in 249 career NHL games, all with Tampa Bay, and has recorded 35 goals and 143 points. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raddysh\u00a0was originally undrafted and signed as a free agent by the Chicago Blackhawks on May 21, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY\u00a0-\u202fThe Tampa Bay Lightning have\u00a0acquired\u00a0a fifth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft from the Toronto Maple\u00a0Leafs\u00a0in exchange&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-746856","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\/746856","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=746856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}