{"id":729629,"date":"2026-06-27T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:00:08","slug":"lightning-select-f-oleg-kulebiakin-with-52nd-overall-pick-in-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729629\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning select F Oleg Kulebiakin with 52nd overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 52nd pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning have selected forward Oleg Kulebiakin of the Halifax Mooseheads in the QMJHL.<\/p>\n<p>Kulebiakin, 18, scored 29 goals and led the Mooseheads in assists (44) and points (73) across 64 games this past season. He tied for 17th in the QMJHL for scoring in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, left-shooting winger is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia and is committed to the University of Massachusetts for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay acquired pick 52 from the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday in exchange for picks 58 and 133 in this year\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 52nd pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, the Tampa Bay Lightning have selected forward Oleg Kulebiakin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-729629","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\/729629","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=729629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}