TSN: If the NHL drafts in June, Lottery Could be Tweaked in Wings' Favor

[JediOrderPizza]

Oh well, going to old draft system was a pipe dream. It was always going to be 4th overall everyone. Plus i'm more pissed that these 8 teams get to watch their team play, and get a chance at a great lotto pick. While we get to wait to 2021 if we are lucky. f*** you virus.

 

[Vladdy84]

Really diappointing. May be done with the NHL if the Wings get #4 again. Mike Illitch wouldn't allow this. Complete slap in the face to this organization and all it's done for the NHL.

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Chicago and one of the NY area teams will slip into the top three again. Ottawa will get the other pick. Wings get fourth.

If it was Holland, I would say the Wings would trade the 4th OA for 7-9 and two seconds, but I don't know what Yzerman will do.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Looking like possibly Jamie Drysdale at #4 Would still rather have Lafreniere or Stutzle. Thanks for nothing Bettman.

 

[hkydave04]

Do we know the odds will be the same as before? Wings with 18.5% chance or could it be slightly higher?

 

[Bench]

Someone tag me when the odds come out that are guaranteed to screw the Wings.

@Bench

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Do we know the odds will be the same as before? Wings with 18.5% chance or could it be slightly higher?

Same odds.

 

[StNickFan]

Oilers lose to the blackhawks then get the 1st pick again. While unlikely, it is on the table now.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Do we know the odds will be the same as before? Wings with 18.5% chance or could it be slightly higher?

Yup still 18.5% odds as it stands now.

 

[RedWingzz]

This is such a slap in the face. Essentially teams are going to be in the play-ins, and because the lottery will have already taken place, they will be in a win-win scenario. If they win, they move onto the playoffs, if they lose, they have a chance at first overall! They claim they want to eliminate tanking, but now there is this shit? Teams will full on know, that if if they lose a series, they have a chance at 1st overall!

I'm sorry, but it's a laughable decision. The worst part of it all is that it took them this long to come up with this nonsense.

I guess it's time to go watch more Drysdale highlight reels, maybe go watch a bit of Holtz and Askarov too, because Laf aint happening.

Shane Wright is coming in 2022 boys, I guess we dream we get lucky in that lottery lol.

 

[TCNorthstars]

This is such a slap in the face. Essentially teams are going to be in the play-ins, and because the lottery will have already taken place, they will be in a win-win scenario. If they win, they move onto the playoffs, if they lose, they have a chance at first overall! They claim they want to eliminate tanking, but now there is this shit? Teams will full on know, that if if they lose a series, they have a chance at 1st overall!

I'm sorry, but it's a laughable decision. The worst part of it all is that it took them this long to come up with this nonsense.

I guess it's time to go watch more Drysdale highlight reels, maybe go watch a bit of Holtz and Askarov too, because Laf aint happening.

Shane Wright is coming in 2022 boys, I guess we dream we get lucky in that lottery lol.

If you think teams will intentionally lose the play in for small chance at 1OA you are out to lunch. Socially distancing of course.

 

[Ricelund]

The tease of getting a top-two pick at minimum sucks but that always felt like a pipedream to me.

 

[GOZetterberg]

This is such a slap in the face. Essentially teams are going to be in the play-ins, and because the lottery will have already taken place, they will be in a win-win scenario. If they win, they move onto the playoffs, if they lose, they have a chance at first overall! They claim they want to eliminate tanking, but now there is this shit? Teams will full on know, that if if they lose a series, they have a chance at 1st overall!

I'm sorry, but it's a laughable decision. The worst part of it all is that it took them this long to come up with this nonsense.

I guess it's time to go watch more Drysdale highlight reels, maybe go watch a bit of Holtz and Askarov too, because Laf aint happening.

Shane Wright is coming in 2022 boys, I guess we dream we get lucky in that lottery lol.

Only if the top 7 teams do not win the 3 draws on June 26th. Usually there is one team that jumps up in the 8-15 range so I think we can expect the same, but rarely is that pick the 1st overall. Just gotta pray on lottery night June 26th.

 

[Bench]

The tease of getting a top-two pick at minimum sucks but that always felt like a pipedream to me.

 

[RedWingzz]

If you think teams will intentionally lose the play in for small chance at 1OA you are out to lunch. Socially distancing of course.

12.5% isn't a small chance in my opinion.

Put it this way, the draft lottery happens and one of the play-in teams "wins" first overall. At this point, the teams that lose in the play-in will have a 12.5% chance at first overall. You don't think Montreal would be enticed to drop for those odds? If Montreal beats Pittsburgh, they go and play a team that will most likely eliminate them in the next round. But if Montreal loses to Pittsburgh they still know "oh well, we get a 12.5% chance at getting our French Canadian wonder boy"!

I'm not saying they'd do it, but it makes suffering a "play in" loss more tolerable knowing that you have a 12.% chance at Laf.

 

[FabricDetails]

Tankathon | 2020 NHL Draft Order & Lottery Simulator

This was depressing. It took me 11 simulations to get a result I liked...

4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
1st

(Yes, I know, we've known this since forever and it's just how math works...)

 

[Bench]

Tankathon | 2020 NHL Draft Order & Lottery Simulator

This was depressing. It took me 11 simulations to get a result I liked...

4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
4th
1st

(Yes, I know, we've known this since forever and it's just how math works...)

f*** yeah. If we just bottom out 11 more years, things are finally going to look up around here.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

f*** yeah. If we just bottom out 11 more years, things are finally going to look up around here.

We will draft Jake Chelios's kid and it will turn out that #1D talent just skips a generation.

 

[Flowah]

Wow looks like there *was* a way to not do the draft with the Wings having extremely elevated odds at 1OA *and* with a modified playoff system.

Interesting.

 

[FabricDetails]

f*** yeah. If we just bottom out 11 more years, things are finally going to look up around here.

2021 Tank for Aatu Räty!

 

[GOZetterberg]

I dont think Habs or Hawks fan should be happy about this, my understanding is their 20% (Habs) and 16% (Hawks) of picking top 3 now probably turn into 12.5% in the case one draw is won by the odds of 8-15 ranked teams.

 

[taylorjonl]

This is how brilliant the NHL is, instead of taking advantage of the situation and holding a huge early summer draft event when all eyes could be on them and the potential to expand their fanbase was off the charts, they decide to completely bungle the situation, look like indecisive clowns, basically bend over the bottom third of the league, and potentially lose long time fans like me by screwing the team that I follow. Brilliant

The NHL draft is not drawing in new fans, people who don't watch a sport don't give a crap about the draft.

 

[Marky9er]

Wait, how does the Taylor Hall factor play here? New Jersey wins it with Arizona's pick? Can we win it if we start a rumor about signing Hall?

 

[lhsgolf19]

 

[FMichael]

The tease of getting a top-two pick at minimum sucks but that always felt like a pipedream to me.

This.

I for one never bought into the idea that the bottom 5, or 7 would be the only teams eligible for the lottery...Pretty obvious the BoG would crap kittens if that were the case, and neither Bettman/Daly have the coconuts to go ahead, and do their own thing without BoG approval.