{"id":764440,"date":"2026-06-27T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764440\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:46:10","slug":"what-a-day-sharks-stun-fans-with-big-draft-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764440\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;What a day&#8217;: Sharks stun fans with big draft haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, after a huge Day 1 at the NHL Draft, the future is even brighter.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks started the night off with forward Ivar Stenberg at No. 2 after some luck at the draft lottery. Then, they used pick No. 9 \u2014 acquired this week from the Ottawa Senators \u2014 to land North Dakota defenceman Keaton Verhoeff. But they weren&#8217;t done, and after trading up, selected Vancouver Giants defenceman Ryan Lin with pick No. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans were quick to rush to social media to react to the big haul by the Sharks. Here are some of the many reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, after a huge Day 1 at the NHL Draft, the future is even brighter. The Sharks started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-764440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764440","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=764440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}