NHL Draft Lottery Results

By Djack

The New Jersey Devils have won the NHL Draft lottery landing them the #1 overall pick in the 2017 NHL Draft. The Devils had an 8.5% chance of winning the lottery and that's apparently all they needed. The NHL lottery is super confusing just like everything else the NHL does, so I'm not exactly too sure how this works, I'm just assuming it's like the NBA lottery. Anyways, I hate it, just give the team with the worst record the first overall pick and do it by record, not chance. If anything the Las Vegas Knights should've been guaranteed the #1 overall pick since they're an expansion team and will certainly need it. Regardless, the Devils, who were not an awful team this year, basically just ensured another superstar will be joining their team. As for the rest of the lottery order, here it is:

1. New Jersey Devils (70 points)

2. Philadelphia Flyers (88 points)

3. Dallas Stars (79 points)

4. Colorado Avalanche (48 points)

5. Vancouver Canucks (69 points)

6. Las Vegas Knights (N/A)

7. Phoenix Coyotes (70 points)

8. Buffalo Sabres (78 points)

9. Florida Panthers (81 points)

10. Los Angeles Kings (86 points)

12. Carolina Hurricanes (87 points)

13. Winnipeg Jets (87 points)

14. Tampa Bay Lightning (94 points)

15. New York Islanders (94 points)

Flyers were the big winners of the lottery, somehow they shot up all the way to the #2 overall pick, despite having a really good season racking up 88 points. I'm not saying it's fixed, but it's fixed. Of course they don't fix it for the Islanders or the Lightning to move up since their franchises seem to not be doing all that great in the business aspect of things. Flyers on the other hand, they'd be great to have competing in the playoffs, so lets just give em a lil boost. Bullshit, NHL pulling some phony shit expecting no one to notice. Same shit with the Dallas Stars, they got put above teams that deserved the #3 overall pick way more than they did, but Dallas is a bigger  market, so they get the pick. That's my thoughts on the lottery, only one reason the NHL does this, so they can control which young players go where. Kinda like the NBA.