{"id":321467,"date":"2026-06-27T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321467\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:20:10","slug":"morozov-selected-in-first-round-of-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321467\/","title":{"rendered":"Morozov Selected in First Round of NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y.\u2014 Miami University center <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\/roster\/ilia-morozov\/10741\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10741\" target=\"_blank\">Ilia Morozov<\/a> was selected in the first round of the NHL Draft today. Morozov was picked 20th\u00a0overall by the Buffalo Sabres. The 17-year-old prospect from Moscow, Russia becomes the highest NHL draft pick ever from Miami University and is the RedHawks&#8217; first first-round selection since Jack Roslovic in 2015.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMorozov, who began the 2025-26 season as the youngest player in Division I hockey, appeared in all 36 games as a freshman and put up 20 points (8-12-20). He produced back-to-back three-point nights in an October sweep at RPI to earn NCHC Forward of the Week honors, and scored his first overtime game-winner later that month at Lindenwood. Morozov lit the lamp in back-to-back games three different times during the season and scored the game-winning goal in the regular-season finale at Omaha to help Miami earn a playoff spot.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y.\u2014 Miami University center Ilia Morozov was selected in the first round of the NHL Draft today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-321467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321467","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=321467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}