You have to be scouted and if you are good you will be drafted to an nhl team
The NHL
stats from 02' said that 132 of every 22000 players make it to nhl or nhl feeder team. so with the numbers reduced, 6 of every thousand make it. and out of the 132 only 7 of them actually play in the nhl.
Typically NHL GM's make around 1-3 billion dollas a year
normally the nhl selects you into the draft out of collage and the team picks you. but you have to be really good for them to pick you
In the NHL, the top 8 teams from each conference make the playoffs, regardless of what division they are in.
Roughly 4-7% go straight to the NHL
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200,000 to 1,000,000
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