2013 NHL Entry Draft
The NHL Entry Draft 2013 was held on 30 June 2013. It was the 51th staging of this event. Venue was the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The draft was broadcast in Canada and the United States nationally on TSN, NBC Sports and the NHL Network.
With the first overall draft pick, the Colorado Avalanche selected from the Canadian Centre Nathan MacKinnon. On the second and third Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers ) and Jonathan Drouin (Tampa Bay Lightning) were selected. A total of 211 players from twelve countries were drafted by the NHL franchises in seven rounds. The Buffalo Sabres selected uses eleven players the most from; the Carolina Hurricanes and the St. Louis Blues had with four options are available, few people.
- 4.1 Round 1
- 4.2 Round 2
- 4.3 Round 3
- 4.4 Round 5
- 4.5 Round 6
- 4.6 Round 7
Available Players
All players who were born between 1 January 1993 and 14 September 1995, available for the Entry Draft. In addition, all are ungedrafteten, non-North American players over 20 for the Draft approved. Likewise, those players who are approved for the draft, which were already selected when the NHL Entry Draft in 2011 and have signed up to the time of the 2013 Entry Draft not be an initial contract with a franchise of the National Hockey League.
Draft order
The draft order was determined on 29 April 2013 following the completion of the regular season NHL Season 2012/ 13 by the draft lottery. The 14 teams took part, who do not qualify for the play- offs this season; or their right to vote holders. The winner of the lottery before it moved on draft position 1, all other teams move to the rear. Thus, each participating in the draw team had the chance to get the first option. This change was introduced with the new collective bargaining agreement, which was ratified during the NHL lockout in 2012/13. Previously, the winner of the lottery could only ascend a maximum of four positions. The weighting, however, remains, so the worst team of the season still has a 25 % chance of winning the lottery, while the best team in the lottery only has a chance of 0.5%.
The Colorado Avalanche won the lottery and moved thus to a place from second to first place in the draft order on. Thus they secured for the first time the First Overall Draft Pick. The Florida Panthers, the worst team in the regular season, slipped by from first to second place in the draft order.
The draft sequence of the 16 play-off participants is established after the Stanley Cup final. The Stanley Cup winner is set to position 30, the final opponent at position 29. At positions 27 and 28 excreted in the Conference Finals teams will be sorted. The remaining play-off teams will be placed in the regular season based on their table stand. The rule is that the team is in position 15 with the fewest points table. The draft order is valid for all rounds of the Entry Draft; the teams can thereby acquire voting rights on transfers of other teams as well as own dispose to other teams.
Transfer of first-round voting rights
Rankings
The Final Rankings of the Central Scouting Services (CSS ) of 24 April 2013, and the ranking of the International Scouting Services ( ISS) on 2 June 2013 with most promising talents for the NHL Entry Draft in 2013.