The Chicago Blackhawks will have the fourth overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft, which was awarded as a result of the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery.<\/p>\n
The 2026 NHL Draft will mark the second time in franchise history that the Blackhawks have picked fourth overall, having previously selected Richie Baynes with the fourth pick in 1964.<\/p>\n
The Blackhawks are picking in the top-5 for just the 14th time in franchise history, having previously owned two first overall picks (2023 \u2013 Connor Bedard; 2007 \u2013 Patrick Kane), two second overall picks (2024 \u2013 Artyom Levshunov; 1965 \u2013 Andy Culligan), seven third overall picks (2025 \u2013 Anton Frondell; 2019 \u2013 Kirby Dach; 2006 \u2013 Jonathan Toews; 2004 \u2013 Cam Barker; 1984 \u2013 Eddie Olczyk; 1980 \u2013 Denis Savard; 1966 \u2013 Terry Caffery), one fourth overall pick (1964 \u2013 Richie Bayes) and one fifth overall pick (1963 \u2013 Art Hampson).<\/p>\n
The club currently has eight total picks in the 2026 NHL Draft, including one in the first round, three in the second round, one in the third round, one in the fourth round and two in the seventh round. Chicago is one of only three teams with at least four selections in the first two rounds of the 2026 NHL Draft, joining Calgary (6) and Vancouver (4).<\/p>\n
Including the 2026 NHL Draft, the Blackhawks will have had nine first-round picks between 2023-26, the most of any NHL team over that span. Additionally, Chicago has 15 total picks in the first three rounds of the next three NHL Drafts, which is tied for the third-most in the NHL.<\/p>\n
The 2026 NHL Draft will be held from June 26-27 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks will have the fourth overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft, which was awarded as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":776003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-776002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116524635121704373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}