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The 2020 NHL Draft is currently scheduled for June 26-27 and the NHL would very much like to keep it that way.
Aside from the obvious exposure the league would generate with most professional sports on hiatus, it would help the NHL stay as close to its normal schedule as possible. According to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, the league has proposed going forward with a late-June draft even without the current season concluded.
As Friedman notes, however, there is more than just viewership at stake here and teams may be more inclined to keep the draft as scheduled rather than postpone.