{"id":622388,"date":"2026-07-14T13:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/622388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:28:39","slug":"2026-nhl-draft-predators-make-their-first-selection-a-former-nashville-players-teenage-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/622388\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Draft: Predators make their first selection, a former Nashville player\u2019s teenage son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; With the 10th pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, the Nashville Predators select Wyatt Cullen, a forward in the U.S. National Team Development Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cullen is committed to play at the University of Minnesota. The native of Moorhead, Minnesota, is 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782163634_913_WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He\u2019s also the son of former Predators forward, Matt Cullen. The elder Cullen played two seasons in Smashville, from 2013 to 2015. The center scored 17 goals for the Preds.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; With the 10th pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, the Nashville Predators select Wyatt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[7704,19714,603,5,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":["post-622388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-cullen","tag-draft","tag-hockey","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-predators"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116918570764605413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622388","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=622388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}