7 NCAA Players To Watch In The 2020 NHL Draft

The NCAA has proven to be an expanding developmental league for the NHL, and several promising freshman seasons have led to a handful of players looking forward to hearing their name called in the 2020 NHL Draft.

The 2020 Stanley Cup Final between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars is a clash of front office philosophy as the Lightning tied the series up 1-1 last night.

Last month, the ECHL announced a revised start date to their upcoming season, slating Dec. 4 as opening night for the 2020-21 campaign.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Sept. 10, 2020 – The Men’s League of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association will delay the start of its 2020-21 season, WCHA Men’s League Commissioner Bill Robertson announced today.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have been a perennial Stanley Cup contender for the better half of the last decade, but 2020 may finally be their year.

In March of 2020, with conference tournaments underway and the national tournament right around the corner, college hockey was canceled as we knew it. Nobody knew for how long, or what each circumstance would lead to. Now, many months later, as college campuses begin to return and athletes look towards their seasons, it seems as though times around the country are becoming more and more unprecedented. With 11 institutions making up Atlantic Hockey, each with different return-to-campus procedures, many different plans have been formulated by leaders within the conference. 

As COVID-19 continues to create uncertainty around the world, the 2020-21 NCAA hockey season is just another piece of the puzzle left in disarray. 

The draft lottery-winning New York Rangers are poised to select consensus No. 1 pick Alexis Lafrenière in the 2020 NHL draft as another core piece to an impressive rebuild and budding powerhouse.

The end of the qualifying round marks Phase 2 of the NHL’s altered draft lottery set for 6 PM EST, Monday evening, where eight teams will be thrown into an even chance at the No. 1 pick in 2020.

Saturday marked the first official NHL games since mid-March and the (re)opening weekend of the NHL was full of excitement, highlights, and lots of nail-biting.