{"id":766405,"date":"2026-06-28T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766405\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:34:45","slug":"winnipeg-jets-2026-7th-round-draft-pick-199th-overall-alofa-tunoa-taamu-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766405\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets 2026 7th Round Draft Pick (199th overall): Alofa Tunoa Ta\u2019amu \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jets made history with the 199th pick as they select Alofa Tunoa Ta\u2019amu and he\u2019s also known as Noa\u00a0who is the first ever player drafted of Samoan heritage. He\u2019s from Kansas City and spent the last season in the WHL with the Edmonton Oil Kings as a left-shot defenceman standing 6\u20192 and 227 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Elite prospects describe him as:<br \/>Ta\u2019amu\u2019s game is all about disruption and strength. Agile with surprisingly quick feet, he\u2019s a deft rush defender, capable of matching footwork, timing pokechecks, and even surfing into angle-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Where he was projected in the consolidated rankings of Elite Prospects:<br \/>Ranked #99 by ELITEPROSPECTS.COM<br \/>Ranked #166 by MCKEEN\u2019S HOCKEY<br \/>Ranked #102 by DAILY FACEOFF<br \/>Ranked #109 by NHL CENTRAL SCOUTING (NA Skaters)<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/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 made history with the 199th pick as they select Alofa Tunoa Ta\u2019amu and he\u2019s also known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-766405","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\/766405","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=766405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}