{"id":764457,"date":"2026-06-27T21:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:09:10","slug":"lightning-select-forwards-morgan-anderberg-cooper-soller-in-round-5-of-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/764457\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning select forwards Morgan Anderberg, Cooper Soller in Round 5 of NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning selected a pair of forwards in the fifth round of the 2026 NHL Draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bolts take center Morgan Anderberg at 134<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay picked forward Morgan Anderberg with the 134th overall pick, an 18-year-old center who scored two goals and three points in 39 games of professional hockey for V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Anderberg, 5-foot-11, also scored two goals and 10 points in nine games for V\u00e4xj\u00f6\u2019s U20 club this season.<\/p>\n<p>He was ranked 86th among international skaters in the NHL Central Scouting department\u2019s final rankings ahead of this year&#8217;s Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Pick 154 brings Cooper Soller to Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay then selected forward Cooper Soller with the 154th overall pick in Round 5.<\/p>\n<p>Soller, 17, was named the USHL\u2019s rookie of the year after scoring 26 goals and 49 points in 62 games for the Sioux Falls Stampede.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles native is set to return to the Stampede in 2026-27 and is committed to Western Michigan University.<\/p>\n<p>Soller was ranked 140th among North American skaters in the NHL Central Scouting\u2019s final 2026 rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning selected a pair of forwards in the fifth round of the 2026 NHL Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-764457","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\/764457","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=764457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}