In hindsight, one of the underlying themes of the 2012 draft was the broad failure of NHL scouts to adequately compensate for a weak year in Canada’s major junior ranks.

Today, we look back at the 2012 NHL Draft, which was held at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh on June 22-23, 2012. Goalies were not exactly flying off the board at the 2012 NHL Draft.

NHL scouts, however, have already started making preparations for the upcoming draft in 2012. While most of these players are 16 and 17 years old, they have started catching the attention of the ...

The 2012 NHL draft is set to kick off one of the most exciting offseasons in recent memory. We're almost there hockey fans. While fans of the Los Angeles Kings celebrate their long awaited time ...

PITTSBURGH -- David Poile remembers vividly his first NHL draft. He was on the floor at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in downtown Montreal when the expansion Vancouver Canucks-- a team being led by ...

The NHL Draft can be very unpredictable. People like myself may make projections of these young players, but often, be it myself or the teams selecting, turn out to be dead wrong in large part ...

A few facts and figures about the 2012 NHL draft.

Profiles of the 30 first-round selections in the 2012 NHL entry draft.

Buzzing The Net recently held their annual mock draft for the 2012 NHL entry draft in Pittsburgh, Pa. The "general managers" taking part in the exercise were BTN contributors Kelly Friesen and Cam ...

Re-Drafting the 2012 NHL Entry Draft: 4 years later a lot of surprises have been discovered. So how would the first round look with a re-do?The NHL entry draft is always full of surprises. The ...

The Winter Classic is in Philly and now the NHL Draft is set to be in Pittsburgh next year. Say, is there anything we can do in Harrisburg or Hershey or Allentown for the NHL too?