2014 NHL Entry Draft

The NHL Entry Draft 2014 will take place on 27 and 28 June 2014. It is the 52nd staging of this event. The venue is the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Available Players

All players who were born between 1 January 1994 and 14 September 1996, available for the Entry Draft. In addition, all are ungedrafteten, non-North American players over 20 for the Draft approved. Likewise, those players are available, who were elected at the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 and signed in 2014 not be an initial contract with their original draft club until the time of the entry draft.

Draft order

The draft order is determined in April 2014 after completion of the regular season of the NHL season 2013/14 by the draft lottery. It is attended by 14 teams that do not qualify for the play-offs this season; or their right to vote holders. Each of the 14 teams has the chance to get the first option. It has the worst team of the season, a 25 % probability of winning the lottery, while the best team in the lottery only has a chance of 0.5%.

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

The New Jersey Devils were originally condemned by the NHL to abandon a first-round draft picks in 2011, 2012, 2013 or 2014 after they signed with the Russian Ilya Kovalchuk winger an illegal contract. In addition to them the third-round draft pick for the 2011 Entry Draft was withdrawn. Because they used their first-round voting rights in the past three years, therefore, the right to vote in 2014 would be eliminated. On March 6, 2014, the sentence was reduced because of the NHL career end of Kovalchuk; the Devils regained the right to vote, with the requirements that they are the last team in the first round of the series and that the pick may not be included in swaps with other teams. Furthermore, the fine was halved.

Rankings

The midterm rankings of the Central Scouting Services (CSS ) of 13 January 2014 and the rankings of the International Scouting Services ( ISS ) of 14 February 2014, the most promising talents for the NHL Entry Draft in 2014.

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