NHL Draft Hockey Player Data (1963 - 2022)

The dataset contains every player drafted in the NHL Draft from (1963 - 2022).

The data was collected from Sports Reference then cleaned for data analysis.

Tabular data includes:

• year: Year of draft
• overall_pick: Overall pick player was drafted
• team: Team player drafted to
• player: Player drafted
• nationality: Nationality of player drafted
• position: Player position
• age: Player age
• to_year: Year draft pick played to
• amateur_team: Amateur team drafted from
• games_played: Total games played by player (non-goalie)
• goals: Total goals
• assists: Total assists
• points: Total points
• plus_minus: Plus minus of player
• penalties_minutes: Penalties in minutes
• goalie_games_played: Goalie games played
• goalie_wins
• goalie_losses
• goalie_ties_overtime: Ties plus overtime/shootout losses
• save_percentage
• goals_against_average
• point_shares