{"id":765291,"date":"2026-06-27T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765291\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:11:08","slug":"lightning-select-cooper-soller-154th-overall-in-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765291\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Select Cooper Soller 154th Overall in 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cooper Soller has a really interesting profile as a true centre, August birthday, and track record of production in his first full season in the USHL,&#8221; Elite Prospects scout Whittaker Heart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/617640\/cooper-soller\/scouting-report#report-108454\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote back in May.<\/a> &#8220;The sense is pretty good. He receives pucks in the middle of the ice and facilitates pucks from station to station.\u00a0Competes pretty hard, getting involved and throwing his weight around as much as possible. Some enviable traits, but he looks like a D-grade still.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cooper Soller has a really interesting profile as a true centre, August birthday, and track record of production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-765291","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\/765291","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=765291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}