{"id":167780,"date":"2026-04-16T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:35:44","slug":"two-erie-otters-named-in-final-2026-nhl-draft-rankings-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167780\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Erie Otters Named in Final 2026 NHL Draft Rankings | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Hockey League\u2019s Central Scouting service has released its final rankings ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft, with two members of the Erie Otters earning spots among North American skaters.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Lucas Ambrosio is ranked 91st after appearing in 64 games this past season, recording one goal and 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow defenseman Julius Sarri comes in at 218th. The 6-foot-2 rookie played all 68 games in his first Ontario Hockey League season, tallying five goals and 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the rankings is Gavin McKenna, a freshman forward at Penn State Nittany Lions men&#8217;s ice hockey. McKenna posted15 goals and 51 points in 35 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NHL Draft will be held June 26\u201327 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, home of the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League\u2019s Central Scouting service has released its final rankings ahead of the 2026 NHL Draft,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,17019,45198,75555,42921,39309],"class_list":{"0":"post-167780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-erie-otters","12":"tag-gavin-mckenna","13":"tag-julius-saari","14":"tag-lucas-ambrosio","15":"tag-nhl-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}