Live Updates: All the picks and trades at the NHL Entry Draft 2017 First Round

Welcome to the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. The United Center on Chicago’s west side is the site where 17-18 year old players will be selected to the 31 teams of the NHL across 7 rounds of action.

The First Round of the draft can be found on NBC Sports Network and it begins at 7pm ET/6pm CT.

Here is the official draft order:

1. New Jersey Devils select Nico Hischier
2. Philadelphia Flyers proud to have Nolan Patrick fall into their lap
3. Dallas Stars pick Miro Keiskanen
4. Cale Makar banished to the Colorado Avalanche
5. Vancouver Canucks select Elias Petterson
6. Vegas Golden Knights gamble on Cody Glass
7. New York Rangers (via Arizona) Lias Andersson heading to Manhattan
8. Buffalo Sabres take Minnesotan Casey Mittelstadt off the board
9. Detroit Red Wings select Michael Rasmussen
10. Florida Panthers take the redness that is Owen Tippett
11. Los Angeles Kings pick Gabriel Vilardi
12. Carolina Hurricanes get Czech center, Martin Necas
13. Vegas Golden Knights (via Winnipeg) rolls with Nick Suzuki
14. Tampa Bay Lightning pick Callan Foote
15. Vegas Golden Knights (via NY Islanders) goes defense with Erik Brannstrom
16. Calgary Flames take Juuso Valimaki at 16
17. Toronto Maple Leafs picked up Timothy Liljegren
18. Boston Bruins goes with Finn Urho Vaakanainen
19. San Jose Sharks take their pick, select Josh Norris
20. St. Louis Blues have Steve Ott and Mike Yeo coaching the gritz into Robert Thomas
21. New York Rangers take Filip Chytil
22. Edmonton Oilers pick American Kailer Yamamoto
23. Arizona Coyotes (via Minnesota) in return for Martin Hanzal, picks Pierre-Olivier Joseph
24. Winnipeg Jets (via Columbus via Vegas) Kristian Vesalainen begins his Nightwatch
25. Montreal Canadiens and Marc Bergevin takes Ryan Poehling from SCSU
26. *Dallas Stars (via Chicago) trade up to select G Jake Oettinger
27. ** Philadelphia Flyers (via St. Louis via Washington) trade up for Morgan Frost
28. Ottawa Senators pick Shane Bowers
29. *Chicago Blackhawks (via Dallas Stars via Anaheim) turn Henri Jokiharju’s selection into a Wagnerian Opera
30. Nashville Predators select Eeli Tovanen, who fell hard
31. ***St. Louis Blues (via Pittsburgh Penguins) take Klim Kostin from Moscow

*TRADE: Chicago trades pick 26 to Dallas in exchange for picks 29 and 70.

**TRADE: Philadephia Flyers trade Brayden Schenn to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for pick 27, Jori Lehtera, 2018 conditional pick.

***TRADE: St. Louis Blues trade Ryan Reaves and pick 51 to Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for pick 31 and Oskar Sundqvist.

That concludes the first round of the 2017 NHL Draft.