{"id":623686,"date":"2026-07-16T04:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/623686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:57:16","slug":"usa-hockey-select-17s-9-defenders-to-watch-for-2027-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/623686\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Hockey Select 17s: 9 defenders to watch for 2027 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img bv-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Kurt-Beck-Dexter-3.jpg\" width=\"775\" height=\"475\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" bv- \/><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Beck played at Dexter Southfield this past season. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) <\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 We&#8217;ve looked at the forwards from USA Hockey&#8217;s Select 17 Camp who are 2027 NHL Draft prospects. Now, it&#8217;s time to look at the defensemen and goalies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Select 17 Camp is a great appetizer for NHL scouts to get a look at who they might be watching a lot of this winter for the 2027 NHL Draft. Despite the 2026 NHL Draft having just wrapped up, several NHL scouts were in attendance. NHL Central Scouting was well represented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For me, I was at the first two days of games on July 8 and 9. It&#8217;s no secret that I know the New England and Massachusetts players better. But I was still able to glean some NHL Draft prospects from the other regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive in.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kurt Beck played at Dexter Southfield this past season. (Brian Kelly\/NEHJ) BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 We&#8217;ve looked at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[20552,2060,3393,5,2064,2065,4,465,466,5378,422,8393,68460,2694],"class_list":["post-623686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-draft","tag-2027-nhl-draft","tag-boys-prep-hockey","tag-chl","tag-hockey","tag-nepsac-hockey","tag-new-england-prep-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-entry-draft","tag-qmjhl","tag-usa-hockey","tag-usa-hockey-select-17-camp","tag-usa-hockey-select-camp","tag-ushl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116927885716983589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623686","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=623686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}