The 2025 NHL Draft will take place this June, with the lottery expected to happen a month earlier. This year is also expected to mark the first incarnation of a decentralized draft. NEWSLETTERS ...

We have a framework. Though many of the dates for the NHL's Return to Play are still up in the air, we do know that the draft lottery will happen on Friday, June 26 and we know the draft itself ...

The NHL's new draft lottery format was designed to discourage teams from tanking games in order to get a higher draft slot. That will work fine when the format kicks in full bore in 2016 ...

Wins in the lottery prior to 2022 will not be counted toward this total. This boosts the odds of picking first overall for the worst team in the NHL because if a team beyond the 11th worst wins ...