{"id":720111,"date":"2026-06-22T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720111\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:50:22","slug":"penguins-to-make-five-selections-in-the-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720111\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins to Make Five Selections in the 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins will have five selections in this year\u2019s NHL Draft, held from June 26-27 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins will make three selections in the first two rounds. Below is a breakdown of Pittsburgh\u2019s picks:<\/p>\n<p>Round 1, Pick 22<br \/>\nRound 2, Pick 39 \u2013 Acquired from Winnipeg on March 7, 2025<br \/>\nRound 2, Pick 54<br \/>\nRound 3, Pick 86<br \/>\nRound 6, Pick 170 \u2013 Acquired from Nashville on August 13, 2024<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins hold one pick in the first round, and four picks in the top-100.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s draft will be held over two days: Friday, June 26 at 7:00 PM ET (Round 1 on ESPN, ESPN+, Sportsnet, TVA Sports) and Saturday, June 27 at 11:00 AM ET (Rounds 2-7, on NHL Network, ESPN+, Sportsnet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins will have five selections in this year\u2019s NHL Draft, held from June 26-27 at KeyBank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-720111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}