{"id":316955,"date":"2026-06-23T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:38:08","slug":"lightning-enter-2026-nhl-draft-with-seven-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316955\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Enter 2026 NHL Draft with seven picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning are set to make seven selections at the 2026 NHL\u00a0Draft, taking place Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The Lightning\u2019s 2026\u00a0draft\u00a0is presented by Florida Blue.<\/p>\n<p>Round 1 will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 26. Rounds 2-7 will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 27. ESPN and ESPN+ will provide live coverage of Round 1 on Friday in the United States, while NHL Network and ESPN+ will air Rounds 2-7 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Current Lightning Selections<\/p>\n<p>Round 2 \u2013 58th overall<\/p>\n<p>Round 3 \u2013 90th overall<\/p>\n<p>Round 5 \u2013 133rd overall (from Toronto)<\/p>\n<p>Round 5 \u2013 134th overall (from Seattle)<\/p>\n<p>Round 5 \u2013 154th overall<\/p>\n<p>Round 6 \u2013 186th overall<\/p>\n<p>Round 7 \u2013 218th overall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning are set to make seven selections at the 2026 NHL\u00a0Draft, taking place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-316955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316955","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=316955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}