The NFHL uses a weighted lottery method to determine who gets the 1st pick in the entry draft.  There will be three lotteries to determine the first three choices in the draft. The first lottery will determine the 1st choice in the draft.  The second lottery will determine the 2nd pick, and the 3rd lottery will determine the 3rd pick. Once the first three spots are determined, the remaining teams will select based on the reverse order of the regular season standings. Teams that win the lottery can move up a maximum of five (5) spots in the draft order.  Should a team win a lottery that would move them up more than 5 spots, they will automatically be awarded the position that is exactly 5 spots higher in the draft order.  If that puts them 2nd or 3rd in the draft order, the corresponding lottery will not take place and the lottery that was just performed will be done again. For example, if the 7th place team wins the 1st place lottery, they will move up 2nd place.  The 2nd place lottery will no longer be needed and the 1st place lottery will be conducted again.

Playoff teams will have their draft order determined by a combination of playoff results and regular season standings.  All teams eliminated in the 1st round will be ranked according to the reverse order of their regular season standings.  The same process will be followed by teams eliminated in the 2nd round and then the conference finals. The two teams in the SMJ Cup finals will have the final 2 picks of the draft, with the winner awarded the final draft pick of the 1st round.

This process is only for the 1st round of the draft.  The second and 3rd round of the drafts will solely be based on the reverse order of the regular season standings, regardless of playoff results.

The lotteries will be conducted using the simulator on DraftPickLottery.com.  The 8 teams who missed the playoffs will be entered into the simulator in the reverse order of their regular season standings.  A weighted draft lottery system will be used.  After the first lottery is completed, another simulation will be done with just the 7 remaining teams.  The third lottery will have just the 6 remaining teams. This simulator uses a simple method of putting in 1 more "ball" into the lottery for each successive team in the lottery.  For example, in our case, the 8th place team (the team with the lowest chance at winning the lottery) will have 1 ball.  The 7th place team will have 2 balls, etc. As such, the chance of winning each lottery is as follows:

Lottery 1 (1st Overall Pick)
24th Place 35%
23rd Place 20%
22nd Place 15%
21st Place 10%
20th Place 8%
19th Place 6%
18th Place 4%
17th Place 2%
 
Lottery 2 (2nd Overall Pick)
23rd Place 36%
22nd Place 21%
21st Place 16%
20th Place 11%
19th Place 8%
18th Place 5%
17th Place 3%

Lottery 3 (3rd Overall Pick)

22nd Place

 37%
21st Place 22%
20th Place 17%
19th Place 12%
18th Place 8%
17th Place 4%

  Here are the chances for each of the non-playoff teams for the first lottery:

Chicago Blackhawks 24th 35%
Pittsburgh Penguins 23rd 20%
Calgary Flames 22nd 15%
Philadelphia Flyers 21st 10%
San Jose Sharks 20th 8%
Minnesota North Stars 19th 6%
Quebec Nordiques 18th 4%
New York Rangers 17th 2%

 The results of the first lottery are:

The Minnesota North Stars have won the 1st lottery and will get the #1 pick in the 1992 Entry Draft.

Here are the chances for each of the non-playoff teams for the second lottery:

Chicago Blackhawks 24th 36%
Pittsburgh Penguins 23rd 21%
Calgary Flames 22nd 16%
Philadelphia Flyers 21st 11%
San Jose Sharks 20th 8%
Quebec Nordiques 18th 5%
New York Rangers 17th 3%

The results of the second lottery are:

The San Jose Sharks win the 2nd lottery and will pick #2 overall in the 1992 Entry Draft.

Here are the chances for each of the non-playoff teams for the third lottery:

Chicago Blackhawks 24th 37%
Pittsburgh Penguins 23rd 22%
Calgary Flames 22nd 17%
Philadelphia Flyers 21st 12%
Quebec Nordiques 18th 8%
New York Rangers 17th 4%

The results of the third lottery are:

Calgary wins the 3rd lottery and will have the 3rd pick in the 1992 Entry Draft.

 The Entry Draft order for the first round only is:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Round 1
# Team Owned By Name Pos GP G A Pts PIM
W L T GAA
1 Minnesota Pittsburgh Sergei Gonchar D 149 8 36 44 52
2 San Jose Edmonton Alexei Yashin F 102 41 48 89 55
3 Calgary Calgary Roman Hamrlik D 62 3 9 12 45
4 Chicago Chicago Nikolai Khabibulin G 53 19 21 3 3.72
5 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Mike Peca F 6 2 3 5 15
6 Philadelphia Edmonton Sami Kapanen F 11 2 6 8 2
7 Quebec Calgary Cory Stillman F 26 4 8 12 10
8 NY Rangers NY Rangers Jere Lehtinen F 6 3 1 4 0
9 Los Angeles Philadelphia Andrew Brunette F 6 2 3 5 14
10 Detroit Detroit Darren Van Impe D          
11 New Jersey Buffalo Valeri Bure F          
12 Vancouver Philadelphia Adrian Aucoin D          
13 St. Louis Edmonton Tomas Holmstrom F 8 1 5 6 14
14 Boston Boston Jason Smith D 5 1 1 2 18
15 Washington Quebec Anson Carter F          
16 Buffalo Calgary Sergei Bryliln F          
17 Montreal Montreal Mike Rathje D 30 4 8 12 82
18 Winnipeg Winnipeg Todd Marchant F          
19 NY Islanders Edmonton Ian Laperriere F          
20 Edmonton Edmonton Manny Fernandez G 3 1 2 0 4.7
21 Hartford NY Rangers Annti Laaksonen F          
22 Colorado Buffalo Craig Rivet D 4 0 1 1 19
23 Anaheim Pittsburgh Stephane Yelle F 2 1 0 1 0
24 Toronto Philadelphia Manny Legace G 20 3 7 1 3.89
Round 2
# Team Owned By Name Pos GP G A Pts PIM
W L T GAA
25 Chicago Chicago Jeff Shantz F          
26 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Ruslan Salei D          
27 Calgary Calgary Andreas Dackell F 13 1 1 2 7
28 Philadelphia Winnipeg Andrei Nikolishin F          
29 San Jose Vancouver Derek Armstrong F          
30 Minnesota Edmonton Grant Marshall F 2 0 0 0 4
31 Quebec Washington Sergei Krivokrasov F 3 0 0 0 2
32 Los Angeles Washington Scott Walker F 10 0 0 0 6
33 Detroit Detroit Mark Lawrence F 12 2 1 3 28
34 NY Rangers Calgary Nathan Dempsey D 32 1 4 5 44
35 New Jersey Edmonton Todd Warriner F 2 0 0 0 0
36 Vancouver Vancouver Michal Sykora D 8 2 1 3 6
37 St. Louis Washington Mattias Timander D          
38 Boston Boston Matthew Barnaby F 5 0 1 1 8
39 Montreal Montreal Vladimir Vujtek F          
40 Winnipeg Calgary Jan Vopat D 38 4 5 9 32
41 Washington Vancouver Johan Hedberg G          
42 Anaheim Detroit Patrick Traverse D          
43 Hartford Vancouver Jeremy Stevenson F          
44 NY Islanders Calgary David Wilkie D 51 0 4 4 26
45 Buffalo Vancouver Brandon Convery F 1 0 0 0 0
46 Edmonton Edmonton Kyrsztof Oliwa D          
47 Colorado New Jersey Jim Carey G 1 0 0 0 5.45
48 Toronto Pittsburgh Cale Hulse D          
Round 3
# Team Owned By Name Pos GP G A Pts PIM
W L T GAA
49 Chicago Vancouver Rob Valicevic F 29 2 2 4 18
50 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Robert Petrovicky F          
51 Calgary Calgary Ville Peltonen F 12 0 1 1 2
52 Philadelphia Philadelphia Drew Bannister D 70 2 21 23 50
53 San Jose Vancouver Chris Ferraro F          
54 Minnesota Vancouver Nathan Lafayette F 10 0 0 0 0
55 Quebec Washington Rich Brennan D 9 1 2 3 4
56 Los Angeles Los Angeles Allan Egeland D 10 0 2 2 6
57 Detroit Detroit Jeff Toms F          
58 NY Rangers Washington Hans Jonsson D 4 1 0 1 17
59 New Jersey Philadelphia Ryan VandenBussche F          
60 Vancouver Toronto Marko Kiprusoff D          
61 St. Louis Vancouver Yves Sarault F          
62 Boston Boston Joel Bouchard D          
63 Montreal Montreal SOLD            
64 Winnipeg Winnipeg SOLD            
65 Washington New Jersey Chris Snell D          
66 Anaheim Washington SOLD            
67 Hartford Calgary SOLD            
68 NY Islanders NY Islanders Kelly Fairchild F          
69 Buffalo Detroit Yan Kaminsky F          
70 Edmonton Vancouver Peter Ferraro F          
71 Colorado New Jersey Eric Cairns D          
72 Toronto Washington SOLD