{"id":229333,"date":"2026-06-27T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229333\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:29:16","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-select-forward-liam-ruck-as-their-first-pick-in-the-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229333\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins select forward Liam Ruck as their first pick in the NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">RANKIN, Pa. \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins have selected forward Liam Ruck as the first pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Ruck, 18, was the 22nd overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">He played for the Medicine Hat Tigers before being drafted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/628116\/liam-ruck\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/628116\/liam-ruck\">According to Elite Prospects<\/a>, Ruck is a Canadian native who is 6 feet tall and around 176 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RANKIN, Pa. \u2014 The Pittsburgh Penguins have selected forward Liam Ruck as the first pick in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12183,4788,99354,5158,2443,5680,4843,73,75,74,19737,99355,726],"class_list":["post-229333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-athlete","tag-generic","tag-graphic-element","tag-hockey","tag-ice","tag-logo","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-playoff","tag-scratched-ice","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229333","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=229333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}