{"id":763976,"date":"2026-06-27T04:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763976\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:39:16","slug":"montreal-canadiens-draft-forward-gleb-pugachyov-with-no-26-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763976\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens draft forward Gleb Pugachyov with No. 26 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have drafted forward Gleb Pugachyov with the No. 26 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadiens came into Friday with the No. 28 selection before trading up to No. 26 in a swap with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. Vegas moved down to No. 28 and picked up a 2027 third-round pick from Montreal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pugachyov, 18, spent the 2025-26 in the MHL with Chaika Nizhny Novgorod, where he scored 10 goals with 24 points in 33 regular-season games. He added three goals and nine points in 16 games in the playoffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have drafted forward Gleb Pugachyov with the No. 26 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,78846,448,82],"class_list":["post-763976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}