{"id":322045,"date":"2026-06-27T20:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T20:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:53:27","slug":"lightning-select-d-max-vilen-with-218th-overall-pick-in-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322045\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning select D Max Vil\u00e9n with 218th overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning closed their 2026 NHL Draft by selecting defenseman Max Vil\u00e9n with the 218th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay\u2019s seventh-round pick spent the 2025-26 season playing in the QMJHL, scoring three goals and 27 points in 54 games between the Saint John Sea Dogs and Moncton Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old left-shooting defender from Hammarl\u00f6v, Sweden racked up 25 penalty minutes and was plus-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning closed their 2026 NHL Draft by selecting defenseman Max Vil\u00e9n with the 218th overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-322045","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\/322045","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=322045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}