Results of the first round in NHL 2025, players’ selections: reaction and analysis

This was not the case. But I’m going to be honest: I didn’t hate him as much as some of you seemed to it. Of all the things they tried, only the thing of the virtual draft house was a total disaster. The remaining 90% of the show were good. Rarely large and constantly Cringy in this way in the NHL to which we are used to now, but rarely terrible.

But let’s move on to the right to the question that many fans wondered about this thing: would it be both the first and the last of decentralized drafts, the concept being one and the form?

Well … we don’t know. And this is good news, in a sense, because the only way we would be able to answer this question with any degree of confidence was if the whole was an unmountained disaster. Seeing him working quite well, it would hardly be that the league buy the chance to try again next year if they wish.

Are they going? I sort of doubt it. This is less based on what we have seen on Friday and more on what we have heard from Bettman and others in recent weeks. The commissioner clearly indicated that he was not exactly a big fan of the decentralized approach, constantly reminding us that it was not his idea and that he was open to return to the old one.

It seems not committed, and this is the case. But how many times have the fans complained of something like the format of the playoffs or the rereading review or the shootings or anything else, only for Bettman proactively slaughtering a hope of something that ever changes? The fact that he leaves the door open tells me that the writing may already be on the wall here, a bit like it was in 2015 when Bettman clearly hated the new compensation rule for coaches and GMs and he disappeared in a year. The vibrations here seemed similar to the before Friday. And although we may not have seen anything who ashamed the League to return to the old man immediately, we certainly did not get the kind of presentation of the Home Run which would make everyone claim one more year.

Save the large red button, however. We can keep this.