NEW YORK – The National Hockey League announced today that the broadcast of the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery on Monday, May 5 will, for the first time in its 30-year history, feature the drawing live in-studio, allowing viewers to follow along and learn the results at the same time as the Draft Lottery participants.

The process to determine the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft will be televised live in the United States and Canada. The NHL announced on Friday that a live drawing of lottery balls will take place on Monday night at the NHL Network studios in Secaucus, N.J.

The NHL will hold the 2025 draft lottery on May 5; here’s what you need to know. Like the NBA’s draft lottery, the NHL draft lottery is dictated by a random drawing of numbered pingpong balls. Each team is assigned multiple series of numbers, and the order in which they’re pulled determines the draft order.