Nashville Predators Select Offensive Piece From Sweden
The Nashville Predators have made yet another selection in the 2026 NHL Draft, this time in the fifth round.
With the No. 138 pick in the NHL Draft, the Nashville Predators have selected left winger Philip Hemmyr out of Sweden. Hemmyr stands at 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds.
Hemmyr played in the Swedish second tier league. This past season, Hemmyr played 63 games and scored 25 goals and assisted on 31 goals for combined 56 points. In those games he only served 16 penalty minutes and had a +/- of +29.
In six playoff games this past season, he assisted on one goal for his only point.
Hemmyr looks like he has offensive upside to his game given how points he came up with this past season.
Hemmyr is the sixth pick taken by the new front office of the Nashville Predators and the fourth pick by new President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Chris MacFarland on Saturday. In the first round, the Predators took left winger Wyatt Cullen and defenseman Thomas Bleyel with picks 10 and 31.
Satuday, the Predators took goaltender Dmitri Borichev, defenseman Jakub Floris, left winger Justin Graf in addition to Hemmyr.
With Hemmyr being the third left winger the Predators have selected in the draft, it seems that Nashville is quickly building depth on the wing with guys that can skate and produce offensively with their scoring abilities and assisting.
The Predators have two picks remaining in this year's draft, one in each of the sixth and seventh rounds. Nashville did have pick No. 160, but traded it away to the Pittsburgh Penguins for the 2028 fifth round pick.
With the amount of left wingers that the Predators have taken, it should be interesting to see how Nashville goes about its final two picks.
Here is a list of the picks the Predators have made and the ones they still have remaining in the final few rounds.
Nashville Predators 2026 NHL Draft Picks
Round 1, Pick No. 10: Wyatt Cullen, LW
Round 1, Pick No. 31: Thomas Bleyel, D
Round 3, Pick No. 70: Dmitri Borichev, G
Round 4, Pick No. 106: Jakub Floris, D
Round 4, Pick No. 118 Justin Graf, LW
Round 5, Pick No. 138: Philip Hemmyr, LW
Round 6, Pick No. 179
Round 7, Pick No. 202
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Graham Baakko writes for both Nashville Predators On SI and Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham graduated from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as an intern for GamecockCentral.