{"id":376708,"date":"2026-06-27T02:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:10:09","slug":"ducks-acquire-two-first-round-selections-15th-and-29th-overall-in-2026-nhl-draft-from-blues-for-mctavish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376708\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Acquire Two First-Round selections (15th and 29th Overall) in 2026 NHL Draft from Blues for McTavish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks\u00a0acquired two first-round selections (15th and 29th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft from the St. Louis Blues for center Mason McTavish.<\/p>\n<p>Following the transaction, Anaheim selected forward\u00a0Nikita Klepov with the 15th overall selection. The Ducks currently own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/fans\/ducks-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nine selections in the 2026 NHL Draft<\/a>, including four in the top 50:<\/p>\n<p>1st round \u2013 15th overall (Nikita Klepov)<br \/>\n1st round \u2013 29th overall<br \/>\n2nd round \u2013 45th overall<br \/>\n2nd round \u2013 50th overall<br \/>\n3rd round \u2013 82nd overall<br \/>\n4th round \u2013 117th overall<br \/>\n5th round \u2013 146th overall<br \/>\n6th round \u2013 178th overall<br \/>\n7th round \u2013 210th overall<\/p>\n<p>McTavish, 23 (1\/30\/03), recorded 77-104=181 points with 212 PIM in 304 NHL games with Anaheim. He scored 17-24=41 points with 42 PIM in 75 games with Anaheim in 2025-26. The 6-1, 219-pound forward also collected 1-5=6 points with a +1 rating in 10 Stanley Cup Playoff games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Anaheim in the first round (third overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft, McTavish scored 22-30=52 points in 2024-25, setting NHL career highs in points, goals and assists. He recorded 40 points in each of his last four seasons, including 17-26=43 in his first full NHL season in 2022-23 and 19-23=42 in 2023-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks\u00a0acquired two first-round selections (15th and 29th overall) in the 2026 NHL Draft from the St. Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-376708","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\/376708","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=376708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}