MONTREAL -- The 2022 NHL draft is in the books, as 225 players were selected over the course of seven rounds and two days.
Before getting to the annual list of draft winners and draft losers, let's focus on the event's biggest leader: Holding the draft in person again, and in Montreal.
This was the first time since 2019 in Vancouver that the NHL held a proper draft, with executives at tables in the middle of an arena, media working the interview scrums and fans filing in to celebrate their teams' future. To have it in Montreal made the return to some semblance of normalcy even grander, and not just because NHL commissioner Gary Bettman delighted in egging on those fans that booed him every time he stepped to the podium.