{"id":730886,"date":"2026-06-28T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730886\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:06:20","slug":"penguins-take-twice-undrafted-underdog-in-2nd-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/730886\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Take Twice Undrafted Underdog in 2nd Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last two NHL Drafts, teams passed on undersized Czech defenseman Tomas Galvas. After a couple of years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"147\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> snagged the 20-year-old left-handed defenseman with their second pick of the second round (54th overall).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some draft books showed Galvas at 5-foot-10, 148 pounds, it seems those measurements were his original tape. Updated books show that Galvas is up to 168 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elite Prospects and scouting reports describe him as a defenseman who is good in transition with high-end speed, but also agility and offensive instincts. He made a mark at the 2026 World Junior Championships, helping Czechia to a silver medal. Galvas posted nine points (3-6-9) in seven games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With B\u00edl\u00ed Tyg\u0159i Liberec of the Czech league, the zippy defender had 24 points (8-16-24) in 32 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was not present at the NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/2026-nhl-draft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NHL draft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/penguins-draft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins draft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/tomas-galvas\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">tomas galvas<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/2026-nhl-draft\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NHL Draft<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last two NHL Drafts, teams passed on undersized Czech defenseman Tomas Galvas. After a couple of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[50929,385,302019,99,314778],"class_list":["post-730886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-nhl","tag-penguins-draft","tag-sports","tag-tomas-galvas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730886","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=730886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}