{"id":377586,"date":"2026-06-27T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377586\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:12:13","slug":"2026-anaheim-ducks-draft-grades-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377586\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Anaheim Ducks Draft Grades, Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the uncertain nature of evaluating draft picks, as they\u2019re incredibly young and likely will take several years to reach the NHL, if at all, it\u2019s difficult to dislike any selection made by any team at any point in the draft. With that said, for this exercise, instead of typical letter grades, I have graded the Ducks&#8217; selections in terms of \u201cCold Stone Creamery\u201d ice cream sizes, which reflect varying degrees of enjoyment: \u201cLike It,\u201d Love It,\u201d and \u201cGotta Have It.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to the uncertain nature of evaluating draft picks, as they\u2019re incredibly young and likely will take several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-377586","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\/377586","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=377586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}