{"id":376646,"date":"2026-06-27T01:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376646\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:21:21","slug":"blues-land-mctavish-from-ducks-for-picks-no-15-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376646\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues land McTavish from Ducks for picks No. 15, 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues acquired center Mason McTavish from the Anaheim Ducks for the 15th and 29th picks in Friday&#8217;s 2026 NHL Draft, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks used the No. 15 selection on Saginaw Spirit winger Nikita Klepov. He led the OHL with 97 points in 67 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>McTavish, the 2021 No. 3 pick, fell out of favor with the Ducks after regressing with 41 points in 75 games in 2025-26. He set career highs in goals (22), assists (30), and points (52) the year prior.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old tallied a goal and five assists in 10 appearances this postseason. He was a healthy scratch for two playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>McTavish and the Ducks endured a lengthy contract stalemate last offseason before agreeing to a six-year deal with a $7-million cap hit in late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues acquired center Mason McTavish from the Anaheim Ducks for the 15th and 29th picks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-376646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376646","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=376646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}