The league left open the possibility that the changes will be implemented as soon as June’s 2024 NHL Draft.
The days of catching glimpses of NHL general managers simultaneously working two phones talking trades just 10-feet away from their counterparts on the Draft floor will soon be a thing of the past.
How quickly will the NHL transition to the new format? The league left open the possibility that the changes will be implemented as soon as June’s 2024 NHL Draft. Having each franchise conduct business from their own war rooms, though common now in the NFL, NBA and MLB, is a big break from NHL tradition. Every franchise would descend on a host city, which from 1963 through 1984 was exclusively Montreal, most often at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
Free agency typically opens in the days following the Draft, leaving front offices to scurry back to the hometown – where they will then soon after conduct development camps for their top prospects. That created both a logistical headache and significant expense to send everyone from home city for meetings to the draft host city, and then back to their home facility again.
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