The 2025 draft will be held on Friday, June 27 and Saturday, June 28 in Los Angeles at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater. It was last held in Los Angeles in 2010. Top prospects, media and fans will be in attendance, but NHL team executives, scouts and coaches will participate virtually this year.

Hockey fans are close to knowing the identities of the 16 Stanley Cup playoff teams for 2025. But the battles for seeding continue to rage -- as does the jockeying for position in the draft lottery order.

The regular season in the NHL is drawing to a close, meaning the hunt for the playoffs is heating up. While several teams in both the Eastern and Western Conferences have clinched their spot in the postseason tournament, others are still competing for the right to compete for the Stanley Cup.

In the East, only two playoff spots remain up for grabs after the Ottawa Senators clinched a playoff spot with a Detroit Red Wings loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday. It marks the first time that the Senators will appear in the Stanley Cup Playoffs since the 2016-17 season.

With less than two weeks until the start of the NHL playoffs, five teams in each conference had clinched a playoff spot as of Monday morning. The matchups from our check-in last week largely remain the same this week,

The Leafs, Stars and Oilers are among eight teams under the most pressure to win a title -- and here's how we know.