{"id":301853,"date":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:15:10","slug":"sharks-win-2nd-lottery-spin-pick-2nd-overall-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301853\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks Win 2nd Lottery Spin, Pick 2nd Overall in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have moved up to second overall in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/2026-nhl-draft\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NHL Draft<\/a> from ninth overall after the lottery proved to be in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/2026-nhl-draft-lottery\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NHL Draft Lottery<\/a> was held in New Jersey and saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> win the first overall pick in 2026. The Sharks weren\u2019t to be outdone, as the combination 11-4-3-7 proved to be victorious.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the second straight season the San Jose Sharks will select 2nd-overall. During the 2025 NHL Draft, San Jose selected <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/michael-misa\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Misa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Top draft prospects <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/gavin-mckenna\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin McKenna<\/a> and Ivar Stenberg could be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48666667\/2026-nhl-draft-rankings-top-prospects-players-gavin-mckenna-ivar-stenberg-carson-carels\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">first two players<\/a> taken in this Summer\u2019s draft. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/buffalo-sabres\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> will host the\u00a0draft at the KeyBank Center from June 26-27.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/mike-grier\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier<\/a> told reporters during his exit interview that he expects to select the best player available and not for positional need. He is open to moving the pick if the right trade comes to him, but that might change with these results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have moved up to second overall in the 2026 NHL Draft from ninth overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[106081,127529,4399,75543,3259,4401,88,90,89,98,755,2992],"class_list":["post-301853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-2026-nhl-draft-lottery","tag-gavin-mckenna","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-michael-misa","tag-mike-grier","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sj-sharks","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}