{"id":728482,"date":"2026-06-27T03:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:46:14","slug":"breaking-sharks-trade-up-pick-ryan-lin-no-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728482\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Sharks Trade Up, Pick Ryan Lin No. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have selected Ryan Lin with the No. 21 pick.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11 right-hander put up 14 goals and 57 points in 53 games for the Vancouver Giants this past season. He\u2019s committed to the University of Denver next year.<\/p>\n<p>A testament to how much the San Jose Sharks wanted Lin, they traded the No. 27, 62, and 120 picks to the Philadelphia Flyers for the No. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan McNally says, \u201cHe\u2019s a potential top four defender, one that you rely on, even if he\u2019s not the biggest or as offensively gifted as Reid or Rudolph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elite Prospects says, \u201cThe draft\u2019s most detailed defender plays a remarkably consistent defensive and puck-moving game; a high-probability top-four defender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks\u2019 next pick, as of now, is No. 127 in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have selected Ryan Lin with the No. 21 pick. The 5-foot-11 right-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[222326,230520,831,270198,385,299318,835,16559,99,447],"class_list":["post-728482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-elite-prospects","tag-featured","tag-keegan-mcnally","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-lin","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scouts","tag-sports","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728482","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=728482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}