The NHL draft comes every year, like Christmas, and like Christmas, most hockey fans are concerned with what they’ll get, not how it gets there. The process is ignored, the meaning of it all goes unexamined a lot of the time, except for the occasional article that compares the draft to a tribal ritual or demands it be abolished. In my experience we often know the least about the ubiquitous things in the NHL, so this is a dive into the entire process of the draft. We all might learn something. New fans certainly will.
How does the NHL Entry Draft really work?
