{"id":218871,"date":"2026-06-14T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:32:51","slug":"matthew-schaefer-announces-erie-otters-second-overall-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218871\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Schaefer Announces Erie Otters Second Overall Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Schaefer continues to be incredibly generous with his time, even during his first official NHL offseason.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Schaefer appeared at the OHL Priority Draft, helping his junior team, the Erie Otters, announce the second overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer played 73 games over two years for the Otters, serving as an alternate captain for the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Erie drafted forward Colin Kennedy with the second overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Otters selected Schaefer first overall in the 2023 OHL Draft, two years before the New York Islanders selected Schaefer first in the NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>In a funny coincidence, former Islander John Tavares also appeared, helping his OHL team, the Oshawa Generals, announce the first overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Oshawa drafted Kane Cloutier first overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Schaefer continues to be incredibly generous with his time, even during his first official NHL offseason. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[95494,95218,136,138,137,17019,27873,85388,29527,56708,33425],"class_list":["post-218871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-alternate-captain","tag-colin-kennedy","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-otters","tag-john-tavares","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-oshawa-generals","tag-the-otters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218871","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=218871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}