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June 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM. The 2024 NHL Draft opens Friday with the first round inside of the Sphere in Las Vegas. San Jose is widely expected to select Boston University center Macklin Celebrini ...
First overall picks. Billy Harris, drafted by the New York Islanders in 1972. Mario Lemieux, drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1984. Mats Sundin, drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in 1989, the first European player to be picked first overall. Alexander Ovechkin, drafted by the Washington Capitals in 2004.
Ice hockey players born between January 1, 2004, and September 15, 2006, were eligible for selection in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft. Additionally, un-drafted, non-North American players born in 2003 were eligible for the draft; and those players who were drafted in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, but not signed by an NHL team and who were born after June 30, 2004, were also eligible to re-enter the draft.
The 2024–25 NHL season is the ongoing 108th season of operation (107th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The regular season started on October 4, 2024, when the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils played the first of two games in Prague , Czech Republic, as a part of the 2024 NHL Global Series . [ 1 ]
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The Kraken's first-ever draft pick was Matty Beniers, taken second overall in the 2021 NHL entry draft. [5][6] After the 2022–23 season, Beniers won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's best rookie after accumulating 24 goals and 33 assists in 80 games. [7] The Kraken's second overall pick in 2021 was the highest they have ever drafted.
The team was created on April 18, 2024, with the NHL Board of Governors granting an expansion franchise to Jazz owner Ryan Smith. In lieu of an expansion draft to stock the new team, Smith acquired the hockey assets (players, coaching staff, and draft picks) of the Arizona Coyotes, which suspended hockey operations at the same time. [4]
The 2022 NHL Entry Draft was the 60th NHL Entry Draft. The draft was held on July 7–8, 2022, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. [ 1 ] Montreal were originally scheduled to host the 2020 draft but were unable to do so due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since 1985, the team hosting the draft selected first overall.