{"id":377379,"date":"2026-06-27T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377379\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:21:09","slug":"ducks-select-defenseman-kurtz-with-45th-overall-pick-in-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377379\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Select Defenseman Kurtz with 45th Overall Pick in NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks selected defenseman Jayden Kurtz in the second round (45th overall) of the NHL Draft just after Day 2 got underway in Buffalo, N.Y. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz, 18 (12\/30\/07), split the 2025-26 season between the Chicago Steel of the USHL and Rogers High of the Minnesota State High School League (USHS-MN). He recorded 1-2=3 points in 16 USHL games with the Steel. He spent the majority of the season at Rogers High, earning 13-25=38 in 26 contests, leading club defensemen in points and ranking fourth on among all club skaters in points.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-3, 194-pound\u00a0defenseman appeared in 29 games with Rogers High in 2024-25, collecting 5-15=20 to rank third in scoring on his team among defensemen. A native of Rogers, Minn., Kurtz is committed to Univ. of Wisconsin for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks selected defenseman Jayden Kurtz in the second round (45th overall) of the NHL Draft just after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-377379","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\/377379","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=377379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}