{"id":765255,"date":"2026-06-27T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765255\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:51:11","slug":"ottawa-senators-select-oscar-holmertz-87th-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765255\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Select Oscar Holmertz 87th Overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 87th pick of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, the Ottawa Senators selected 6&#8217;1 centre, Oskar Holmertz, from Linkopings HC of the U20 Nationell.<\/p>\n<p>The second Swede of Ottawa&#8217;s 2026 draft class, he produced 36 points in 32 games, which ranked 27th among forwards in the league. EliteProspects&#8217; consolidated rankings has him right on target at 87th, and The Hockey News&#8217; Tony Ferrari has him all the way up at 54th.<\/p>\n<p>EliteProspects describes him as a complete playmaker with quality skating, puck-handling and passing.<\/p>\n<p>All four of Ottawa&#8217;s selections thus far have been forwards, which makes sense given they used both of their 2024 and 2025 1st-rounders on defencemen.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Ottawa, Oscar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 87th pick of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, the Ottawa Senators selected 6&#8217;1 centre, Oskar Holmertz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-765255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765255","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=765255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}