{"id":767075,"date":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767075\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:18","slug":"sharks-take-seven-foot-one-defenceman-alexander-karmanov-at-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767075\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks take seven-foot-one defenceman Alexander Karmanov at NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tallest player in OHL history has an NHL home.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"san-jose-sharks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> snapped up seven-foot-one, 280-pound defenceman Alexander Karmanov in the seventh round (201st overall) of the NHL Draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Karmanov, a native of Moldova, signed with the North Bay Battalion in late November after being picked by the Brantford Bulldogs in the CHL Import Draft last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Karmanov had no goals, two assists and 29 penalty minutes in 20 games for the Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, he had three goals, four assists and 68 penalty minutes in 15 games with the Bulldogs&#8217; top affiliate in the Greater Ontario Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Karmanov has made a commitment to play NCAA hockey at Penn State University starting in 2027-28.<\/p>\n<p>Karmanov played with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Knights under-16 team last season in Pennsylvania. He played in Russia and Belarus in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers forward Matt Rempe and Hockey Hall of Famer Zdeno Chara, both six-foot-nine, are the tallest players in NHL history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tallest player in OHL history has an NHL home. The San Jose Sharks snapped up seven-foot-one, 280-pound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-767075","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\/767075","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=767075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}