The Miami regular season doesn’t start for three months, but the RedHawks registered a hat trick this weekend.
Defenseman James Rieber was selected by Anaheim in the seventh round, 210th overall in the 2026 NHL Draft, becoming the third Miami commit or current player picked in the two-day event.
Ilia Morozov was taken by Buffalo 20th overall on Friday, and Tim Runtso went to Montreal late in the second round on Saturday.
In his first major juniors season, Rieber scored two goals and picked up nine assists in 60 games for USHL Waterloo in 2025-26.
Rieber is expected to return to the Black Hawks this fall and join the RedHawks in 2027-28.
The last time Miami had three players taken in the same draft was 2011, when Tyler Biggs, Blake Coleman and Sean Kuraly were all selected. Colin Sullivan later transferred to the RedHawks from that class as well.
Rieber will be the third-ever Miami player picked by Anaheim and the first in 19 years. Justin Vaive was the RedHawks’ last Ducks draftee, taken in the third round in 2007, and Matt Christie was selected in the eighth round of the 2004 draft.
It was just the fourth time in the two-decade-old seven-round draft format that Miami has had at least three draftees the same year.
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