NHL commissioner Gary Bettman wanted the team’s general managers to decide following the draft if the decentralized draft ...

LOS ANGELES -- The 2025 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be unlike any draft the League has held before. Depending on how the teams ...

For a long time, the NHL ran a centralized draft that worked. Then they tried a decentralized one, and it didn’t. Naturally, ...

It’s been 10 years since three Seattle arena groups failed to bid on NHL expansion, a situation that initially seemed dire ...

By all accounts from hockey experts, Tri-City Americans defenseman Jackson Smith should be selected by an NHL team tonight in the first round of the NHL Draft. Fans can watch it happen beginning ...

Of the 24 players on the Wild’s NHL roster last season, just three — Vinnie Hinostroza, Jared Spurgeon and Jake Middleton — ...

Other cities mentioned in the report, like Atlanta, are deep into a development plan to lure a hockey team. Indianapolis, at this point, lacks a hockey stadium large enough for an NHL team.

Not every NHL team has picked No. 1 overall — sorry Carolina Hurricanes and Minnesota Wild, among others — but over the years, some teams have gotten the chance to draft at that top spot way ...