The booking event will take place next summer in Los Angeles. The NHL is moving to the same operating model as the other major leagues in North America.
The booking ceremony for the ice hockey series NHL will take place next June in Los Angeles, news reports include, among other things The Fourth Period and ESPN.
The upcoming summer booking event will be different from previous booking events, as the NHL will move to the same model as the other North American major leagues, the NBA, the NFL and the MLB.
The teams will make the player selections from their own premises, instead of the team’s management personnel, such as CEOs, traveling to the location for the booking ceremony and announcing the player booking on the stage of the arena.
Commissioner of the NHL Gary Bettman has previously stated that the reason, among other things, is that more and more people would be more comfortable doing the same things at home during the booking event.
Also CEO of the Utah Hockey Club Bill Armstrong’s according to the previous operating model, where the club sends all its management personnel to the booking event, was not the most efficient.
– It’s loud at booking events, and the phones don’t work very well. I believe that people are more productive at home. You also don’t have to worry about revealing your screens to anyone. There is clearly more privacy, Armstrong said ESPNaccording to
Armstrong also emphasized that the clubs’ costs will be lower when there is no need to send personnel back and forth.
The booking event was last held in Los Angeles in 2010. At that time, the first to book was the Edmonton Oilers, who recruited a Canadian Taylor Hall. The 33-year-old Hall currently represents the Chicago Blackhawks.