{"id":741486,"date":"2026-07-03T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:04:07","slug":"lightning-sign-defenseman-tomas-kralovic-to-a-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741486\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning sign defenseman Tomas Kralovic to a three-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed defenseman Tomas Kralovic to a three-year, entry-level contract, vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Kralovic, 20, played in 52 games for HC Slovan Bratislava of the Slovakian league in 2025-26, recording six goals, 31 points and a plus-17 rating. He also appeared in 17 playoff games for Bratislava, posting four goals and six points. The 6-foot-3, 203-pound blueliner skated in five games representing Slovakia during the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship and tallied two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Kralovic was drafted by Tampa Bay in the third round, 90th\u00a0overall, of the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed defenseman Tomas Kralovic to a three-year, entry-level contract, vice president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-741486","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\/741486","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=741486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}