{"id":374497,"date":"2026-06-25T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374497\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:00:08","slug":"anaheim-ducks-2026-draft-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374497\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks 2026 Draft Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some players to keep an eye on as the selections continue to come off the board are winger Mathis Preston, center Yegor Shilov, and defenseman Xavier Villeneuve. Preston (5-foot-11, 176 pounds) is as electric as they come with every offensive tool in the toolbox, but didn\u2019t produce as much as expected in his draft year. Shilov (6-foot, 177 pounds) is a calculated, play-controlling center who may lack the top-end pace desired by many. Villeveuve (5-foot-11, 162 pounds) is an offensive dynamo from the backend, but frame and projectability like his has caused many of his ilk to drop to the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some players to keep an eye on as the selections continue to come off the board are winger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,47007,9898,14932],"class_list":["post-374497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-john-carlson","tag-nhl-draft","tag-pat-verbeek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374497","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=374497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}