{"id":259945,"date":"2026-05-06T00:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:03:07","slug":"florida-panthers-to-select-ninth-overall-in-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259945\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers to Select Ninth Overall in 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 Following tonight\u2019s live draft lottery, the Florida Panthers will possess the ninth overall selection at the upcoming 2026 Upper Deck NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers have selected the ninth overall pick once previously, taking forward Petr\u00a0Taticek\u00a0in 2002 from the Soo\u00a0Greyounds\u00a0(OHL).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The full draft positions for the 2026 NHL Draft will be released following the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Panthers are\u00a0currently\u00a0slotted to have\u00a0seven picks in the draft, including three in the first two rounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NHL Draft will take place in Buffalo, N.Y., from\u00a0Friday, June 26 (Round 1: 7 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+, Sportsnet, TVA Sports) and Saturday, June 27 (Rounds 2-7: 10 a.m. ET on NHL Network, ESPN+, Sportsnet) at KeyBank Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2026-27 Florida Panthers Territory Memberships are available now! Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/panthers\/tickets\/territorymemberships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>\u202fto learn more. For all the latest in\u00a0Panthers\u00a0news, concerts and events at\u00a0Amerant\u00a0Bank Arena &amp; FTL War Memorial, sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/panthers\/fans\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8217;93 Society newsletter<\/a>\u202fand receive information straight to your inbox. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FloridaPanthers.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seatgeek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SeatGeek.com<\/a>\u00a0for all ticketing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013 Following tonight\u2019s live draft lottery, the Florida Panthers will possess the ninth overall selection at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-259945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}