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NHL Draft Is Decentralized This Year. What It Means for Sabres, and How Teams Will Handle the Change
- The 2025 NHL draft began on Friday night in Los Angeles with teams selecting players from their home cities in a decentralized format.
- The NHL's Board of Governors voted for decentralization to reduce travel costs and operating contingents after remote drafts during the pandemic.
- Buffalo Sabres GM Kevyn Adams prepared for the draft by moving operations to the Buffalo Bills' training facility, citing the benefit of local collaboration.
- Adams said, "The advantage is that we're at One Bills Drive," and praised support from Bills executives in facilitating Sabres' draft-week activities.
- The decentralized draft introduces new logistics and less traditional fanfare, and NHL will poll teams this summer on returning to the old centralized format.
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