This year’s decentralized draft worked for the Lightning, and now the team aims to keep the development on an upward trajectory, beginning this week at the team’s 2025 development camp. Seven of the eight draftees will attend development camp, with the exception being Luttsev.

NHL Entry Draft was another success for the WHL. In the end, 33 WHLers heard their names called as they were drafted into the NHL. This includes nine in the first round, which accounts for 28.125% of the picks.

NHL Draft may have lacked the star power recent editions of the annual event had, but it didn't lack in intrigue.