{"id":377025,"date":"2026-06-27T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T08:05:12","slug":"sharks-trade-up-take-ryan-lin-at-no-21-in-2026-nhl-draft-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks trade up, take Ryan Lin at No. 21 in 2026 NHL Draft \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sharks made a big move with their third pick of the 2026 NHL Draft&#8217;s first round, trading up to No. 21 overall and selecting another Canadian defenseman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/628112\/ryan-lin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Lin<\/a> of the Vancouver Giants.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose certainly wanted Lin, sending Nos. 27, 62 and 120 to the Philadelphia Flyers to move up six spots and draft the 18-year-old. The mobile, right-shot defender grew up in Richmond, across the Fraser River from Vancouver, and posted 14 goals and 57 points in 53 games for the Giants this past season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the Sharks, Ryan Lin! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fEn392qUzO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fEn392qUzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/2070688922812985367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 27, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Lin is the second defenseman drafted by the Sharks on Friday and third 18-year-old after they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/ivar-stenberg-2026-draft\/1946081\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took Swedish forward Ivar Stenberg<\/a> at No. 2 overall and North Dakota defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/defenseman-keaton-verhoeff-2026-draft\/1946103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keaton Verhoeff at No. 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks originally acquired the 27th pick from the Buffalo Sabres, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/michael-kesselring-trade-draft-sabres\/1944049\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">along with defenseman Michael Kesselring<\/a>, in exchange for the No. 20 selection. Now they&#8217;ve utilized that trade to make another in search of talent that can help shore up their defense.<\/p>\n<p>To the delight of many, Sharks general manager Mike Grier got greedy in the first round, and San Jose certainly hopes it pays off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sharks made a big move with their third pick of the 2026 NHL Draft&#8217;s first round, trading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[26,9898,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-377025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-breaking-news","tag-nhl-draft","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\/377025","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=377025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}