The 2025 NHL Draft was not the traditional centralized draft that everyone had been accustomed to. For the first time, the NHL went to a decentralized draft. If you watched the draft and followed social media, there were mixed reactions. Again, the NHL did the best it could under the circumstances. NHL President and Content & Events Steve Mayer put together a show full of surprises that had some hits and misses.

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But again, the NHL asked its GMs to vote to either keep the centralized draft or change to a decentralized draft. The league changed and yet again asked their GMs after this draft about going back. While the vote was closer than the previous year, the GMs still voted to maintain a decentralized draft. But again, why is the NHL al

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