{"id":762485,"date":"2026-06-26T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:33:13","slug":"2026-washington-capitals-draft-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/762485\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Washington Capitals Draft | Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals hold four picks in the 2026 NHL Draft, including\u00a0the 18th overall selection. The 2026 NHL Draft will be held at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York, beginning on Friday, June 26 and will air on\u00a0ESPN and ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET. Rounds 2-7 will take place on Saturday,\u00a0June 27 and will air on NHL Network and ESPN+ starting at 11 a.m. ET. Last\u00a0year, the team made five selections, including left wing Lynden Lakovic (1st rd., 27th overall). For more information on the Capitals\u2019 2026 Draft, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/capitals\/team\/nhl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WashCaps.com\/draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals hold four picks in the 2026 NHL Draft, including\u00a0the 18th overall selection. The 2026 NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-762485","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\/762485","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=762485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}