{"id":764035,"date":"2026-06-27T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:24:22","slug":"calgary-flames-add-jack-hextall-with-30th-overall-pick-their-second-pick-of-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764035\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames add Jack Hextall with 30th-overall pick, their second pick of NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> added centre Jack Hextall with the 30th-overall pick in the NHL Draft on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hextall, 18, spent the past two seasons with the Youngstown Phantoms of the USHL, and scored 20 goals and 58 points in 59 games with Youngstown this past season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hextall has already committed to play in the NCAA with the Michigan State Spartans in the upcoming season, and could be poised to join the Flames at a later time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Flames added defenceman Carson Carels with the sixth-overall pick earlier in Friday\u2019s draft, so the addition of Hextall gives Calgary some talent in the pipeline on the blue line as well as the forwards group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jack Hextall is a distant cousin of former Vezina Trophy winner Ron Hextall, who is a member of the Flyers Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames added centre Jack Hextall with the 30th-overall pick in the NHL Draft on Friday. Hextall,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[712,49,2798,80260,48],"class_list":["post-764035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-flames-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-20","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764035","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=764035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}