{"id":765450,"date":"2026-06-27T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765450\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:55:12","slug":"winnipeg-jets-2026-5th-round-draft-pick-135th-overall-alexandre-taillefer-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765450\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets 2026 5th Round Draft Pick (135th overall): Alexandre Taillefer \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets go to the QMJHL for their fifth round pick as they select Alexandre Taillefer with the 135th overall pick. He\u2019s a left-shot defenceman standing 6\u20190\u2033 who plays for the Qu\u00e9bec Remparts, will return there next season and is committed to play at the University of Massachusetts in the NCAA for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<p>Where he was projected in the consolidated rankings of Elite Prospects:<br \/>Ranked #225 by MCKEEN\u2019S HOCKEY<br \/>Ranked #111 by NHL CENTRAL SCOUTING (NA Skaters)<\/p>\n<p>First media availability:<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>Podcast:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jets go to the QMJHL for their fifth round pick as they select Alexandre Taillefer with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-765450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765450","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=765450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}