{"id":867063,"date":"2026-08-24T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867063\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:18:12","slug":"canucks-adam-novotny-could-enter-mix-for-spot-on-nhl-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867063\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks&#8217; Adam Novotny: Could enter mix for spot on NHL roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novotny could make his case for an NHL roster spot during training camp ahead of the 2026-27 season, Thomas Drance of The Athletic reports Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Novotny was selected by the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/VAN\/vancouver-canucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canucks<\/a> with the No. 24 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, and he logged 34 goals and 31 assists across 58 regular-season games with OHL Peterborough last year. While he&#8217;s a bit of a long shot to ultimately break camp with the Canucks, the 18-year-old has strong physical traits that could allow him to make enough of an impression during camp to be in the conversation for an Opening Night roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Novotny could make his case for an NHL roster spot during training camp ahead of the 2026-27 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7530,575,85,2371],"class_list":["post-867063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fantasy-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867063","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=867063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}