{"id":567906,"date":"2026-05-06T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:17","slug":"seattle-kraken-earn-no-7-overall-pick-in-2026-nhl-draft-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567906\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken earn No. 7 overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEACAUCUS, N.J. &#8211; The 2026 NHL Draft order locked into place today, and the Seattle Kraken slipped one spot to earn the No. 7 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle has its third-highest pick in draft history, behind 2021 (2nd) and 2022 (4th).<\/p>\n<p>The top prospects at around No. 7 are mostly defensemen, like North Dakota&#8217;s Keaton Verhoeff and Prince George&#8217;s Carson Carels.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken also possess another first-round pick, the Tampa Bay Lightning, and its exact spot will be determined after the NHL Playoffs conclude.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEACAUCUS, N.J. &#8211; The 2026 NHL Draft order locked into place today, and the Seattle Kraken slipped one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,1246,87,40,4,2686,234,5318,43,25467,1953],"class_list":["post-567906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116525165599845642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}