{"id":70668,"date":"2022-07-06T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/targets-for-penguins-first-round-pick"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:55:02","slug":"targets-for-penguins-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/targets-for-penguins-first-round-pick","title":{"rendered":"Targets for Penguins First Round Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 NHL Draft is upon us, and for the first time since 2019, the Pittsburgh Penguins are in line to make a selection in the first round. Coincidentally, Pittsburgh also picked 21st overall that year, selecting Samuel Poulin of the QMJHL&#8217;s Sherbrooke Phoenix.This year&#8217;s draft is unique in that, after the top seven or eight picks, there isn&#8217;t much understanding of where each prospect will land. Here are a few prospects that could be available for the Penguins at pick 21.Brad Lambert &#8211; CenterLambert may be the biggest enigma of this draft class. Once thought to be a top-three pick, he has dropped dramatically in most scouts&#8217; draft rankings. The pure talent is there for Lambert, but he hasn&#8217;t been able to put it all together yet in Finland. The 18-year-old center had a rough season between JyP and Pelicans of SM-Liiga, scoring only four goals and 10 points in 49 games. Lambert skated back into the spotlight at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 NHL Draft is upon us, and for the first time since 2019, the Pittsburgh Penguins are in line to make a selection in the first round. Coincidentally, Pittsburgh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,149,58],"class_list":["post-70668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}