2024 NAHL Draft Recap

The 2024 NAHL Draft was held and completed on Wednesday, June 12th  and the NAHL is pleased to announce the results.

In total, 297 players were selected in the draft, which took five hours to complete. 

View the results of the 2024 NAHL Draft at nahldraft.com

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"The NAHL Draft is a very important part of the process in building a team for the upcoming season, "NAHL Commissioner and President Mark Frankenfeld said. “A drafted player has been scouted by the team's coaching or scouting staff. Whether it is skill, strength, speed, compete, character or all of the above, that coach wants that individual on their team. Congratulations to all the players chosen in the NAHL Draft and good luck to every player working hard to play NAHL Hockey in their pursuit of playing NCAA hockey someday.”

The first player taken in the 2024 NAHL Draft was forward Travis Lefere, who was selected by the Watertown Shamrocks. Lefere, 17, played the last two seasons with Fox Motors 16U AAA (T1EHL) and appeared in 124 games and combined for 136 points. Lafere also appeared in a game with USNTDP, U.S. National U17 Team, and the Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL). 

The first defenseman selected was with the 2nd pick overall as the Elmira Aviators selected Ben Costantino from the SJHL’s Humboldt Broncos. Costantino, 19, had 41 points over 50 games last season for the Broncos. 

The first goaltender selected was Frank Murphy, who was taken 10th overall in Round 1 by the Springfield Jr. Blues. Murphy, 19, spent the last season playing mostly for the Islanders Hockey Club (NCDC) and played 3 games with the Chilliwack Chiefs (BCHL). Murphy posted a 2.12 GAA and a .933 SV% last year with the Islanders. 

The NAHL Draft saw 23 players selected from the NAPHL and 27 from the NA3HL. 

Breakdown of positions drafted:

Forwards: 177 (60%)

Defense: 98 (33%)

Goalies: 22 (7%)

Breakdown of teams/levels/leagues where players were selected from:

Canadian Junior: 81

18U: 42

NA3HL: 27

USHL: 10

High School: 20 

Prep School: 40

Other Junior: 27

16U: 24

European Junior: 23

NAHL: 1

NCAA/ACHA: 2

Birth year breakdown:

2004: 86

2005: 106

2006: 73

2007: 30

2008: 2

Players not drafted or tendered by NAHL teams are still able to participate in each team's respective open tryout camps. Remaining tryout camps are listed here.

Each team’s protected list now stands at 28 players.