{"id":377669,"date":"2026-06-27T22:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:57:30","slug":"another-nhl-scouts-opinion-different-stenberg-comp-verhoeff-his-top-d-man-loves-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/377669\/","title":{"rendered":"Another NHL Scout&#8217;s Opinion: Different Stenberg Comp, Verhoeff His Top D-Man, Loves Lin (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO \u2014 The most common word tossed around the draft floor about the San Jose Sharks\u2019 2026 Draft first round?<\/p>\n<p>Haul.<\/p>\n<p>As in \u201cwhat a haul\u201d. Or \u201chuge haul\u201d, which is what one NHL scout, not with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-stenberg-verhoeff-lin-grier-morehouse-fitzgerald-2026-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>, told San Jose Hockey Now. Or \u201cinsane haul\u201d, which is what another NHL scout, also not with the Sharks, told SJHN.<\/p>\n<p>This scout is enamored, in particular, with Keaton Verhoeff and Ryan Lin.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s start first with his thoughts about the San Jose Sharks\u2019 No. 2 pick, Ivar Stenberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 The most common word tossed around the draft floor about the San Jose Sharks\u2019 2026 Draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[62931,143277,93,75543,40771,4401,2067,111611,88,90,89,98,105718,4254,3236],"class_list":["post-377669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-draft","tag-chris-morehouse","tag-featured","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-mike-grier","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-ryan-lin","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scott-fitzgerald","tag-sjhn","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377669","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=377669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}