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    NHL Draft

    The NHL Draft Lottery takes place Saturday. Considering how much difference one's draft position made for the Maple Leafs last year, this can make a major difference in how quickly a team turns around its fortunes. Here are the draft lottery odds for the #1 overall draft pick.

    A year ago at this time, you wouldn’t have had time to read this story. You’d have been far too busy clicking on the NHL draft lottery simulator — over and over and over again.
    It’s what Toronto Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan admitted to doing. It’s pretty much what every NHL fan in the country was doing. Part of it had to do with the potential of selecting a generational talent in Auston Matthews or Patrik Laine. But the bigger reason was that with all seven Canadian teams out of the playoffs, winning the lottery was the next-best thing to winning the Stanley Cup.
    So when the Toronto Maple Leafs were awarded the No. 1 pick and the Winnipeg Jets moved up four spaces to win the No. 2 pick, it was almost parade-worthy.
    “They needed some good news,” Shanahan said at the time. “I hope they’re out in the streets of Toronto right now just feeling a little bit better.”
    This year’s NHL draft lottery, which takes place Saturday night in Toronto, is different.
    While Vancouver finished with the second-worst record in the league and Winnipeg was 20th, five of the seven Canadian teams — Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto — qualified for the playoffs, with the Oilers and Senators advancing to the second round.
    Fans in Vancouver are no doubt playing the simulator, given the Canucks have the second-best odds of picking first (12.1 per cent). But nationally, the landscape doesn’t seem as dire now that so many Canadian teams have already won.

    “Last year’s lottery will always be a good memory for this organization as far as the opportunity to acquire a very special player,” said Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, whose team has a 2.7-per-cent chance of winning this year’s lottery. “But obviously, the feel around the team last year was different than we are today.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/...ahead-of-draft

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    New Jersey Devils have won the NHL Draft Lottery while Canadian teams Vancouver and Winnipeg slipped to fifth and thirteenth respectively.

    The New Jersey Devils will pick first in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft after winning Saturday night’s draft lottery.
    The Devils had the fifth-best chance to win the lottery at 8.5 per cent and find themselves in position to choose between highly touted centres Nolan Patrick and Nico Hischier with the first overall pick in the 2017 NHL Draft.
    The Philadelphia Flyers will select second, while the Dallas Stars pick third.
    The Colorado Avalanche had the best chance of winning the top pick at 18 per cent, but will pick fourth.
    As for Canadian clubs, the Vancouver Canucks will select fifth and the Winnipeg Jets own the 13th pick.
    The choice for Devils general manager Ray Shero is widely expected to be between Patrick, who has had a brilliant three-season Western Hockey League career with the Brandon Wheat Kings, and Hischier, who has this season rocketed to prominence in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Halifax Mooseheads and on the global stage at the World Junior Championship and World U-18 Championship with Switzerland.

    Patrick and Hischier ended up in a dead heat in Bob McKenzie’s TSN pre-lottery draft ranking determined by a vote of NHL team scouts. Patrick got the nod in a run-off vote that broke the deadlock.

    The 2016-17 season was expected to be a Patrick coronation but developed into a Nico-versus-Nolan debate, as Hischier accumulated 38 goals and 86 points in 57 games with Halifax while Patrick missed more regular season and postseason games (43) than he played (33).

    Patrick, sidelined by sports hernia surgery and an upper-body injury, earned 46 points this season to finish his WHL career with 205 points in 163 games.

    If New Jersey picks Patrick, he would become the first Manitoban selected No. 1. Hischier is a lock to be the highest-drafted Swiss player; Nino Niederreiter currently holds that honour (fifth in 2010).
    http://www.tsn.ca/devils-win-lottery...draft-1.738716

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    Here is the full listing of teams involved in the NHL Draft Lottery and their ranking in the draft.


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