The Tampa Bay Lightning selected a pair of forwards in the fifth round of the 2026 NHL Draft on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Bolts take center Morgan Anderberg at 134<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay picked forward Morgan Anderberg with the 134th overall pick, an 18-year-old center who scored two goals and three points in 39 games of professional hockey for V\u00e4xj\u00f6 Lakers HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) in 2025-26.<\/p>\n
Anderberg, 5-foot-11, also scored two goals and 10 points in nine games for V\u00e4xj\u00f6\u2019s U20 club this season.<\/p>\n
He was ranked 86th among international skaters in the NHL Central Scouting department\u2019s final rankings ahead of this year’s Draft.<\/p>\n
Pick 154 brings Cooper Soller to Tampa Bay<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay then selected forward Cooper Soller with the 154th overall pick in Round 5.<\/p>\n
Soller, 17, was named the USHL\u2019s rookie of the year after scoring 26 goals and 49 points in 62 games for the Sioux Falls Stampede.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles native is set to return to the Stampede in 2026-27 and is committed to Western Michigan University.<\/p>\n
Soller was ranked 140th among North American skaters in the NHL Central Scouting\u2019s final 2026 rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning selected a pair of forwards in the fifth round of the 2026 NHL Draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-322008","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\/322008","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=322008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}