{"id":765585,"date":"2026-06-27T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:14:13","slug":"2026-nhl-draft-canadiens-select-cooper-cleaves-with-pick-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765585\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Draft: Canadiens select Cooper Cleaves with pick #93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/USATSI_25271903.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Green Bay Gamblers defenseman Cooper Cleaves (93) fires a shot against the Waterloo Black Hawks on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon, Wis. Waterloo won the game, 6-3.<br \/>\nTork Mason\/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p>With pick #93, the Montreal Canadiens have selected Cooper Cleaves from Dartmouth College of the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-27-at-14-08-59-Cooper-Cleaves-Stats-Contract-Salary-More.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47418\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/597758\/cooper-cleaves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Prospects<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A draft-plus-two player, the Canadiens clearly like what they saw from the 20-year-old in his first year of collegiate hockey. Almost matching his production in the USHL from the previous year, it\u2019s easy to see why they were intrigued by his transition.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaves is another right-shot defenceman, and that seems to be the position the organization is targeting on the second day of the draft. Cleaves is closer to joining the professional ranks than a typical draft prospect, which may have factored into this selection.<\/p>\n<p>Despite trading away their own fourth-round pick to move up in the second round, the Canadiens will be back on the clock with the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 fourth-rounder at 103rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Gamblers defenseman Cooper Cleaves (93) fires a shot against the Waterloo Black Hawks on Saturday, January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-765585","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\/765585","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=765585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}