The Nashville Predators have swung a draft day deal. They've announced that they have acquired forward Adam Edstrom from the New York Rangers.
In exchange, the Predators are sending forward Massimo Rizzo and pick No. 148 in this year's draft to the Rangers.
Much like the Ross Colton and Jack Drury trades by newly hired GM Chris MacFarland, this deal is low-risk, high-reward.
Edstrom, 25, is a huge player; he stands 6-foot-7 and weighs 232 pounds. This is a great addition to the Predators' bottom six, especially considering they have a lot of young, smaller forwards on their NHL team.
Last season, in 35 games with the Rangers, he had three goals and two assists for five points. Over his career, he has played in 97 NHL games and scored 10 goals and six assists for 16 points.
By now, you can probably tell that Edstrom hasn't been an everyday NHL player at this point in his career. However, that is likely going to change with this new opportunity with the Predators.
As a team, they are looking to get younger; Edstrom helps with that. Plus, when you add in his size, it's a great depth pick up for Nashville.
The Penguins drafted Liam Ruck in the first round with the 22nd overall pick on Friday, June 26. That made their second-round choice easy on Saturday. They selected his twin brother Markus with the 39th overall pick.
"That would make sense if that's the way the board falls," general manager Kyle Dubas said Friday.
Liam said the longest span the brothers have been apart is four days.
"We're obviously pretty close brothers," he said. "We go through everything together, I hope his name is called soon because he deserves it."
Liam and Markus play for Medicine Hat of the Western Hockey League and will return there next season. Markus had 108 points to Liam's 104 as they filled the gap when eventual Toronto Maple LeafsNo. 1 overall pick Gavin McKenna left for Penn State.
Kyle Woodlief of Red Line Report said Markus has an "outstanding passing touch and playmaking skills. Excellent vision." He said Liam "wants the puck on his stick in pressure situations and thrived as the 'go-to' guy."
Both have committed to North Dakota for 2027. Liam said there's more work to do now that he's drafted.
"I want to be more explosive with my skating," Liam said. "I think that's going to come with strength. I need to get stronger and heavier."
Flames draft Jarome Iginla's son
The Calgary Flames selected Joe Iginla in the third round with the 65th overall pick. His father began his Hall of Fame career in Calgary. The Flames had missed out on Jarome's older son, Tij, who was drafted sixth overall by the Utah Mammoth in 2024, three picks before Calgary had its first selection.
Blues acquire Brandon Carlo from Maple Leafs
The Blues give up two third-round picks for the defensive defenseman. It was their second acquisition of the draft after acquiring Mason McTavish on the first day.
Former Leafs GM Brad Treliving gave up Fraser Minten, a conditional first-round pick (expected to be in 2028) and a fourth-rounder to land Carlo in March 2025.
In another trade, the Predators acquired 6-foor-7 Adam Edstrom from the Rangers for Massimo Rizzo and a fifth-round pick.
The Nashville Predators opened day two of the 2026 NHL Draft by adding to their goaltending pipeline, selecting Russian netminder Dmitri Borichev with the No. 70 pick in the third round.
Borichev was viewed as one of the better goaltending prospects available outside North America, ranked by Central Scouting as the top European goalie in the class. He’s 6-foot-3, close to 200 pounds, and already has the frame NHL teams tend to lean toward with young goalies.
This past season in the MHL with Loko Yaroslavl, he put up a 2.25 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage over 24 games. Pretty solid numbers for an 18-year-old playing in that environment.
Borichev isn’t overly flashy or chaotic in net. He’s more controlled than anything else. He tracks the puck well, stays square, and doesn’t really overextend on plays. It’s a simple style, but it works. When he does have to make a tougher save, the glove is the part that stands out.
Nashville has usually been pretty patient with goaltenders, and this feels like another one of those long-term swings. He’s not coming over and pushing for NHL time right away. He's going to stay in Russia for a bit and keep playing. And Nashville will just let the development run its course, and when the time is right, he will come over to North America.
The Colorado Avalanche selected Egor Shilov with the 43rd overall pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft, adding the Victoriaville Tigres center to their prospect pool.
The pick used to select Shilov was acquired on Thursday in a trade that sent Valeri Nichushkin to the Columbus Blue Jackets. In return, Colorado received the 43rd overall pick, along with a third-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft and a fifth-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft for the 31-year-old forward.
Born in Tyumen, Russia, Shilov moved to North America in 2024 and quickly began adjusting to the smaller ice and faster pace. He split his first season between U16 AAA hockey with the Long Island Gulls and a stint in the USHL, where he posted 28 points in 39 games—an early sign that his offensive game would translate.
That momentum carried into his first full year in the QMJHL with the Victoriaville Tigres, where Shilov delivered a breakout season. He scored 32 goals on an 18.5% shooting percentage and finished with 82 points in 63 regular-season games, adding five points in four playoff contests. His performance earned him QMJHL Offensive Rookie of the Year honors and pushed him onto the radar as a legitimate early-round draft target.
Shilov’s game is built around offense. He’s a creative center who thrives with the puck, often slowing the game down just enough to open passing lanes or create space for his shot. While he leans more playmaker than pure finisher, his shot is accurate and dangerous when he has time to load up—particularly on the power play.
He also handled a significant two-way workload in Victoriaville, winning 54.8% of more than 1,100 faceoffs, showing he can manage responsibilities down the middle while still driving offense. His ability to produce big nights stood out as well, including multiple five-point performances, two hat tricks, and a four-assist game during the season.
Rankings from a range of outlets generally placed Shilov between the late first and early second round, reflecting a common split in his profile: high-end skill versus questions about pace and skating tempo. At times, he can dictate play; at others, the game can speed past him.
That inconsistency likely played a role in him sliding to No. 43, but the Avalanche are clearly betting on the upside.
Shilov is expected to return to Victoriaville for the 2026–27 season before making the jump to the NCAA with Penn State University in 2027–28. The long development runway gives him time to refine his skating and adapt his game to higher levels without pressure to rush into the professional ranks.
For Colorado, it’s a calculated swing on a player who may or may not be a fit in their system right now, but could later on.
The next phase of the draft holds rounds two to seven of the draft on Saturday, and the Maple Leafs selected left-handed defenseman Alexander Bilecki with the 60th pick. Bilecki was Toronto's first pick following the selection of McKenna.
Bilecki is a Mississauga, Ont., native who spent the past two seasons in the OHL with the Kitchener Rangers. This past year, the blueliner scored nine goals and 29 points in 66 regular-season contests, as well as two goals and 11 points in 18 OHL post-season games.
He helped push the Rangers to an OHL championship. He also wound up becoming a Memorial Cup champion, chipping in three assists and a plus-five rating in four appearances at the tournament.
Bilecki was the third-highest scoring defenseman on the team in both the regular season and the playoffs. He was also tied for the third-most points as a defenseman in the entire Memorial Cup tournament.
The 18-year-old has been labelled as a power-play specialist and a blueliner who thrives at moving the puck from the back end. Bilecki had eight power-play points, but was behind Kitchener's captain, Cameron Reid, on the depth chart as the team's quarterback.
Next year, if Bilecki remains with the Rangers, he'll get plenty more ice time as Reid, a first-round pick of the Nashville Predators, will be taking his talents to the University of Michigan next year.
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The Calgary Flames had a busy second round of the 2026 NHL Draft, first grabbing Chase Harrington at 36th overall, followed by netminder Tobias Trejbal at 42nd, and Alan Haikhlislamov at 55th.
Then, the club made headlines with their first selection in the third round, calling Joe Iginla's name, son of franchise legend and Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla.
The NHL Draft is the second draft the Iginla family has attended in June, as Joe's older sister, Jade, recently joined Hamilton PWHL as the 18th overall pick. Meanwhile, their brother, Tij Iginla, was the sixth overall pick in the 2024 Draft by the Utah Mammoth.
Joe, born in Lake Country, BC, played minor hockey in Kelowna before transitioning to the Edmonton Oil Kings in the WHL for the 2023-24 season, skating in his dad's home city. He was a point-per-game player in his first call-up, but in 2024-25, Inginla had only nine goals and 16 points in 61 games.
He bounced back last year, splitting his time between the Oil Kings and the Vancouver Giants. Overall, Joe scored 15 goals and 31 points in 59 games.
According to NHL Central Scouting, Iginla was the 200th-ranked prospect, with the Flames selecting him at 65th overall. Meanwhile, his Elite Prospects profile does not list where he'll play in 2026-27, giving Calgary fans something to track in the coming months.
The Pittsburgh Penguins continued to add to their defensive prospect pool during the second round of the 2026 NHL Entry Draft on Saturday.
With their 54th overall pick on Day Two, the Penguins selected defenseman Tomas Galvas out of Bílí Tygři Liberec in the Czech league. In 32 games during the 2025-26 season, he registered eight goals and 24 points, and he also put together a standout performance in the World Junior Championship with three goals and nine points in seven games en route to a silver medal.
Galvas, 20, was draft-eligible for two years prior to 2026 but was not selected. The left-side blueliner is listed at 5-foot-10, 168 pounds, and he experienced significant growth in the past year to skyrocket to a second-round selection in his third stab at the draft, with his growth likely giving the Penguins the confidence that they can project what he'll be at the NHL level.
He is a mobile defenseman who excels in transition, and he has the footspeed and the defensive ability to complement a pretty complete toolset. In addition, he fulfills a need for the Penguins, who want to keep adding to their defensive prospect pool.
Their next selection will come at 86 in the third round.
The Vancouver Canucks have selected goaltender Dmitri Ivchenko with the 78th-overall pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.
A 6-foot-3 goaltender, Ivchenko split time between Yastreby Omsk of Russia's U-18 league and Omskie Yastreby of the MHL during the 2025-26 season. In the U-18 league, he registered a 2.11 GAA and .915 SV% in eight games, while he logged a 1.91 GAA and .922 SV% in the MHL.
As it stands, Ivchenko is projected to stay in the MHL for the 2026-27 season.
Ivchenko is the first goaltender the Canucks have selected in this year's draft as well as the first non-forward picked by the organization. Last year, Vancouver selected goaltender Aleksei Medvedev in the second-round of the NHL Draft.
Jan 12, 2026; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; View of a Vancouver Canucks logo on a jersey worn by a member of the team during the second period at Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: David Kirouac-Imagn Images
Prior to picking Ivchenko, Vancouver selected Caleb Malhotra (3rd) and Adam Novotný (24th) during the first round of the 2026 NHL Draft. The Canucks then went on to select Brooks Rogowski 33rd-overall and Niklas Aaram-Olsen 41st-overall during the second round. They have yet to select a defenceman in this year's draft.
Vancouver will not select again until the fourth round, in which they’ll pick 97th-overall.
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The Seattle Kraken have had six first-round selections in franchise history since joining the NHL in 2021.
As the 2026 NHL Draft is underway, it is time to evaluate where each first-round draft pick is now and what they have accomplished since being selected.
First Rounders:
Matty Beniers - 2021 - 2nd overall
The team's first draft selection was Matty Beniers in 2021. Beniers was the number two selection in the draft. Beniers has played five seasons with the Kraken. He won the 2022-23 Calder Trophy for the best rookie in the NHL as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. In his rookie season, he led all first-year players in points with 57. The 23-year-old has appeared in 331 games with the Kraken, recording 82 goals and 114 assists. Last season, he appeared in all 82 games, recording 20 goals and 30 assists.
Shane Wright - 2022 - 4th
Shane Wright was the team's second-highest selection in franchise history. Wright was selected fourth overall in the 2022 NHL Draft. He has played four seasons with the Kraken. The 22-year-old has appeared in 169 games for the Kraken, recording 36 goals and 42 assists. Last season, he appeared in 74 games, recording 12 goals and 15 assists.
Eduard Sale - 2023 - 20th
The Seattle Kraken selected Eduard Sale with the 20th pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. The 21-year-old spent one season in the OHL with the Kitchener Rangers in 2023-24, appearing in 24 games and recording 18 points. He then joined the Coachella Valley Firebirds in 2024-25, where he played 51 games and recorded 21 points. Sale played for the Coachella Valley Firebirds again last season, appearing in 58 games and tallying 27 points. He has yet to make his NHL debut.
Berkely Catton - 2024 - 8th
The Kraken selected Berkly Catton with the eighth overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Catton signed his entry-level contract on July 5, 2024. The 20-year-old has played one NHL season, 2025-26. He appeared in 66 games for the team, recording seven goals and 10 assists.
Jake O’Brien - 2025 - 8th
Jake O’Brien was selected eighth overall in 2025 by the Seattle Kraken. O’Brien spent last season in the OHL with the Brantford Bulldogs, appearing in 53 games and recording 28 goals and 65 assists. He signed his entry-level contract on July 3, but the 19-year-old has not made his NHL debut yet.
Day 2 of the 2026 NHL Draft is off and running. Early in the second round, the Chicago Blackhawks banked two picks nice and early.
First was pick 34, which the Blackhawks used to select defenseman Xavier Villeneuve of Blainville-Boisbriand in the QMJHL. In 37 regular-season games with them, he scored 6 goals and had 32 assists for 38 points.
Being a point-per-game defenseman in the QMJHL earned him a second-round selection, but there is more work to go for Villeneuve. As an undersized defenseman, he will have to work extra hard to make it to the highest level.
He is a dynamic player who has a tremendous amount of confidence in his game. He compared himself to Lane Hutson of the Montreal Canadiens, who is also an undersized defenseman who can put up big-time offensive numbers.
Next season, Villenueve will attend Boston University, which is a great program when it comes to developing players who have high offensive ceilings. That doesn't only apply to defensemen, but Lane Hutson and his brothers have done great work there, which has allowed them to become NHL players.
After making pick 34, the Blackhawks traded up to 35 with the New Jersey Devils. They traded up two spots from 37 and gave up pick 119 to do so.
With that selection, the Blackhawks selected Ryan Roobroeck. He is a big 6'4", 216 lb center coming from the Niagara IceDogs of the OHL.
In 49 games for the IceDogs in 2025-26, Roobroeck scored 30 goals and had 28 assists for 58 points. He sees himself as a big power forward who is going to score and create chaos on the ice.
Roobroeck compares himself to Leon Draisaitl and Mikko Rantanen, who are the best versions of a power forward in the NHL. With the right development plan, he could become a top-six forward in the NHL due to his size and skill.
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With the 53rd overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, the Philadelphia Flyers drafted right-shot defenseman Brek Liske to kick off their second day.
Liske, 18, is a 6-foot-2 jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none defenseman who enjoyed a productive playoff run with the WHL Everett Silvertips, scoring 17 points in 18 games.
In the Memorial Cup, however, Liske was scoreless in his five appearances.
A teammate of 2025 Flyers draft pick Luke Vlooswyk, Liske brings more size and familiarity to the Flyers' constantly evolving prospect pipeline, particularly when it comes to the defensive side.
"Name a skill, Liske probably has it. He’s aware and controlled on retrievals, even absorbing contact to make plays. Defensively, he’s steady and persistent, pushing rushing outside as he skates across the stop. He sticks with opponents and always gives himself a chance to get a stop – there’s hardly any idling in his game," EliteProspects wrote in their draft profile of the new Flyers prospect.
Liske was widely expected to be an early- to mid-second-round pick, and the Flyers made it happen at Pick 53.
At the right defense position, the Flyers now have Spencer Gill, Oliver Bonk, Luke Vlooswyk, David Jiricek, and Carter Amico with a logjam beginning to grow.
Left defense was less of a need for the Flyers after the selection of Maksim Sokolovskii on Friday night, though the number of right-shots the Flyers have after adding Liske is notable.
"While Liske does a bit of everything, his skating has been a limiter. He’s smart and aware, but lacks the explosiveness to consistently separate and create. Defensively, he’s a battler, but he lacks a bit of defensive range, and his heavier skating exposes the middle to attackers.
"At higher levels, Liske’s versatility will remain valuable. He’s proven capable of slotting into a variety of roles. Improved skating will bolster his game across the board. Though he has some second-pair potential, we project him more as a safer, all-around third-pair defenceman," EliteProspects also said of Liske.
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues have added to their defensive corps, acquiring defenseman Brandon Carlo from the Toronto Maple Leafs for two third-round picks, Nos. 73 and 76.
The Blues came into Day 2 of the 2026 NHL Draft with three third-round picks at Nos. 73, 75 and 76.
Carlo, 29, has one year remaining on a six-year, $24.6 million contract at a $3.485 million cap hit ($4.1 million average annual value), and is owed $3.25 million in salary, likely a move as insurance for Adam Jiricek, in case the 2024 first-round pick isn't quite ready to make the jump to the NHL.
"That’s exactly it," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. 'We think that Jiricek
is going to come in and have a great training camp and I know you
guys are sick of me saying this, but the NHL fails more people than
players fail the NHL, so we don’t want to put someone in a position
where they’re surviving. We want to put them in a position where
they can potentially thrive. Jiricek is going to have the opportunity
to come in here and push, but we’re in for the marathon with this
young man. He played a lack of hockey last year, I think 90-plus
games, but if you look at the number of games he played the two years
before that, it wasn’t a lot. Sort of hope for the best and plan
for the worst might be the best way to look at this. It’s a
one-year deal too. We’re not bringing in a contract that’s going
to preclude someone mid-season or next season. This is reflective of
what I think the NHL should be as great competition, so when he’s
ready to take someone’s job, he will."
There's also the benefit of adding a veteran to a group with Colton Parayko, Philip Broberg and Cam Fowler, along with Tyler Tucker and Matthew Kessel, who is a restricted free agent, to balance out younger, more inexperienced guys like Logan Mailloux and Theo Lindstein.
"We’re excited that he’s got size and
length, his ability to kill plays, his experience I think," Armstrong said of Carlo. "It allows
us to have four experienced players right now in Broberg, Parayko,
Fowler and Carlo now, and then we have those younger guys that are
going to push and prod and try to work their way in there (Mailloux,
Lindstein, Jiricek). The way we were set before, we were going to
rely on three young players to take a big role and things that we
tried to accomplish the last few days of getting stronger up front
and having strong goaltending, we think we’re going to be more
competitive than we were last year and adding a defenseman there that
can make us stronger and also provide us the ability to let the
younger players to come at a more natural pace and also provide us
depth for injuries was important for us. This sort of piggybacks what
we’ve done the last couple days.
Carlo, who played three seasons with the Boston Bruins under Blues coach Jim Montgomery, played in 55 regular-season games with the Maple Leafs last season and had seven assists. Carlo's addition adds to the trade Friday of Mason McTavish, who played under new assistant coach Greg Cronin with the Anaheim Ducks.
"It’s been a benefit of having ‘Crow’
here on the Anaheim trade and having 'Monty' on the Boston
relationship," Armstrong said. "Obviously we rely on our pro scouts to do the due
diligence to prepare the information and then we verify our knowledge
with Monty. Monty speaks very highly of his time with him, even
higher of his character of how he fits into a team game. That’s an
added benefit of having that extra knowledge."
The Bruins had initially retained 15 percent of Carlo's contract from a previous trade when they sent Carlo to the Maple Leafs.
He was acquired by Toronto in a trade with Boston on March 7, 2025, for forward Fraser Minten and two draft picks, including a first-rounder.
He was drafted by the Bruins in the second round (37th overall) in the 2015 draft and has played 10 NHL seasons.
At 6-foot-5, 227 pounds, Carlo has 119 points (29 goals, 90 assists) in 692 regular-season games with a plus-137 rating.
Carlo has 14 points (five goals, nine assists)in 85 career postseason games.
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The Carolina Hurricanes traded down twice, but finally made their their first selection of the 2026 NHL Draft in the second round, selecting Swedish defenseman William Hakansson with the 51st overall pick.
"I mean, just happiness," Hakansson told media in Buffalo. "I'm here with my family. They helped me and you can really see them enjoying it, so a really fun moment to spend with them."
The 18-year-old blueliner is a strong, mobile defender, who split time playing between the SHL and HockeyAllsvenskan.
Hakansson also has notable size, standing at 6-foot-4 and weighing in at 216lb.
He's a well regarded skater for his size and while he doesn't have much offensive flash to his game, his defensive game is one of the best in the draft.
The Hockey News ranked him as the 69th best prospect in the draft and wrote, "Reliable D-man is a strong kid, particularly in battles. He's coachable and can skate, but he likely tops out as a bottom-pairing blueliner in the NHL."
When asked if he was upset at all that he wasn't drafted in the first round, Hakansson said that it didn't really bother him at all.
"Of course you want to be picked in the first round, but it's the work after that matters the most."
William Håkansson goes 51st overall to the @Canes 🤩 Håkansson was the 58th overall pick on our final 2026 NHL Draft rankings 🔥
Had William Håkansson ranked No. 32, Carolina trades back and gets a solid overall defender. Big, mobile and smart defensively. Not sure there's going to be much production, but he has the athletic profile that gives him a chance to rise up a depth chart.
There’s absolutely no flash to his game. Instead, he uses his big 6-foot-4, 207-pound frame to flatten opponents while being a pain in the rear end defensively. He’s quite mobile for his frame, too.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded defenseman Brandon Carlo to the St. Louis Blues for two third-round picks. Those picks are the 73rd and 76th selections of the 2026 draft.
Carlo, 29, has played in 75 regular-season games for the Maple Leafs across the past two seasons. This past year, the right-handed defenseman featured in 55 appearances, recording seven assists, averaging 19:22 of ice time per game.
In total, Carlo registered 10 assists as a member of the Maple Leafs, with no goals to his name, and a plus-eight rating. In fact, since joining Toronto, he has the second-best plus-minus rating on the team, just behind Chris Tanev's plus-13
The Maple Leafs sent Carlo to the Blues after Toronto acquired him from the Boston Bruins at the 2025 NHL trade deadline.
In that deal with the Bruins, the Leafs gave up center Fraser Minten, a conditional 2026 first-round pick (which will be pushed to either 2027 or 2028 draft) and a fourth-round pick in 2025, which turned out to be Vashek Blanar.
Carlo is in the final year of his six-year contract with an annual salary of $4.1 million. However, he costs $3.485 against St. Louis' salary cap because the Bruins retained 15 percent of the blueliner's salary.
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After trading a trio of draft picks to the Philadelphia Flyers to move up in the first round, the San Jose Sharks will have to wait quite a while to make their first pick on Saturday.
The Sharks' next pick in the 2026 NHL Draft is the 127th overall pick in the fourth round. Historically, there have been some impact players selected with that pick as well.
The most notable player selected with the 127th overall pick was Ryan Callahan, a long-time member, and captain, of the New York Rangers. Callahan played 757 career games in the NHL, scoring 186 goals and 386 points during his career.
Matt Calvert, who spent the majority of his time in the NHL with the Columbus Blue Jackets, also had a very impressive career after being selected 127th overall. In 566 games, he scored 95 goals and 203 points split between Columbus and the Colorado Avalanche.
In terms of active players, Niko Mikkola of the Florida Panthers is another example of what the 127th overall pick could become.
Odds aren't in the Sharks' favor that they'll find an NHL player with the 127th overall pick, but if they do, history shows it'll either be a slightly undersized forward with a high work ethic or a massive defenseman who may just need some time to find his game.
