{"id":372587,"date":"2026-06-24T05:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372587\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:23:21","slug":"sharks-acquire-the-ninth-overall-selection-in-the-2026-nhl-draft-from-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372587\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks acquire the ninth overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft from Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001gs-U9HoAJ7gdIifKV4_v6dQOyycY0sAmsqOWlBtqrVs_SFcM-owx5pgpCM2r5AA2p5V7YZJ3Xfkjaqyzhr_ojmDZ7fkiO9A3gGF1dwmVtCv6PuSnPHhTrVpUBB0ADyEACyObkWxRQnfXfQuXRVa3vjzaa5IaQjjb-Hlpev4lEJuXq8KOIkb8gA==&amp;c=yr-3KucZcSvtoyq4R-wBwzxb-SUUMoaKkoGwfh1C5PKR4IQCcZhHgQ==&amp;ch=riuSWJY4hvIlryJe61lgJcR4003RUxpLrL0SpBANybdI5qasPa3g9g==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0the ninth overall selection\u00a0(Florida\u2019s selection)\u00a0in the 2026 NHL Draft from the\u00a0Ottawa Senators\u00a0in exchange for forwards\u00a0William Eklund,\u00a0Kasper Halttunen, and Brandon Svoboda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks now own the second, ninth, and 27th\u00a0overall selections in the\u00a0first round of the\u00a02026 NHL Draft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eklund,\u00a023,\u00a0ranked second on the team in assists (38), fourth in points (53), and seventh in goals (15), reaching the 30-assist and 50-point threshold for the second consecutive season.\u00a0From Apr. 2-8, Eklund matched a career best four-game assist streak (two goals, four assists), appeared in his 200th\u00a0game\u00a0on Dec. 7 at Carolina Hurricanes, and reached the 100-point milestone with an assist on Feb. 28 vs the Edmonton Oilers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his NHL career, all with San Jose, Eklund\u00a0has appeared in 252 NHL games, scoring 163 points (50 goals, 113 assists).\u00a0He was selected seventh overall by the club in the 2021 NHL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halttunen,\u00a021,\u00a0appeared in his first full season with the San Jose Barracuda of the American Hockey League (AHL), San Jose\u2019s top developmental team,\u00a0appearing in 69 games and scoring 35 points (16 goals, 19 assists).\u00a0Halttunen finished in the top 20 among AHL\u00a0rookies\u00a0in\u00a0points,\u00a0and\u00a0was eighth among Barracuda skaters in\u00a0points.\u00a0He also appeared in two Calder Cup playoff games, recording one assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halttunen was selected by San Jose in the 2023 NHL Draft (second round, 36th\u00a0overall).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Svoboda, 21, appeared in 35 games for Boston University (NCAA), recording 15 points\u00a0(six goals, nine assists)\u00a0in his sophomore season. Last year, he\u00a0represented\u00a0Team USA at the 2025 World Junior Championship, scoring six points (three goals, three assists) in seven games, helping the team win a Gold Medal. The Sharks selected Svoboda\u00a0in the 2023 NHL Draft (third round, 71st\u00a0overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0the ninth overall selection\u00a0(Florida\u2019s selection)\u00a0in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-372587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372587","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=372587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}