{"id":763270,"date":"2026-06-27T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:35:12","slug":"ducks-acquire-two-first-round-selections-15th-and-29th-overall-in-2026-nhl-draft-from-blues-for-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763270\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Acquire Two First-Round selections (15th and 29th Overall) in 2026 NHL Draft from Blues for McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks\u00a0acquired two first-round selections (15th and 29th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft from the St. Louis Blues for center Mason McTavish.<\/p>\n<p>Following the transaction, Anaheim selected forward Nikita Klepov with the 15th overall selection. The Ducks later traded the 29th overall pick and the 117th overall pick (fourth round) to Vegas for the 28th overall pick, with which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/news\/ducks-select-winger-nordmark-with-28th-pick-of-nhl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selected winger Marcus Nordmark<\/a>.\u00a0The Ducks currently own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/fans\/ducks-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight selections in the 2026\u00a0NHL Draft<\/a>, including four in the top 50:<\/p>\n<p>1st round \u2013 15th overall (Nikita Klepov)<br \/>\n1st round \u2013 29th overall (Marcus Nordmark)<br \/>\n2nd round \u2013 45th overall<br \/>\n2nd round \u2013 50th overall<br \/>\n3rd round \u2013 82nd overall<br \/>\n5th round \u2013 146th overall<br \/>\n6th round \u2013 178th overall<br \/>\n7th round \u2013 210th overall<\/p>\n<p>McTavish, 23 (1\/30\/03), recorded 77-104=181 points with 212 PIM in 304 NHL games with Anaheim. He scored 17-24=41 points with 42 PIM in 75 games with Anaheim in 2025-26. The 6-1, 219-pound forward also collected 1-5=6 points with a +1 rating in 10 Stanley Cup Playoff games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Anaheim in the first round (third overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft, McTavish scored 22-30=52 points in 2024-25, setting NHL career highs in points, goals and assists. He recorded 40 points in each of his last four seasons, including 17-26=43 in his first full NHL season in 2022-23 and 19-23=42 in 2023-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u00a0acquired two first-round selections (15th and 29th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft from the St. Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-763270","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\/763270","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=763270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}