OHL Draft Lottery and Future of Development in OHL

[OMG67]

Are the Icedogs in this lottery lost track what year they lost their first round pick.

It's this draft. No pick for Niagara.

How "not funny" would it be if they were to win the lottery? Not only would it suck not to pick first, they'd also pick last in the 2nd round....if they have their pick that is.

 

[Uncle]

why are they making it a snake draft? dont see the need for that?

To mitigate the benefits of winning the first overall pick? evening the results i guess?

 

[Snipes 29]

That's exactly how I thought it would work for this year only.

Chances of getting 1st Pick Overall

London - 98%
Rest of League - 2%

Agree, Branch does he have hidden shares with knights lol?

 

[Otto]

The only possible scenario here is Niagara getting 1st overall and London getting 2nd.

 

[Generalsupdates]

why are they making it a snake draft? dont see the need for that?

To mitigate the benefits of winning the first overall pick? evening the results i guess?

Because its based on nothing but chance. So if you get super unlucky and are picking 20th overall, it's only fair that you're also picking 21st overall.

Although since it's the OHL, usually 2nd rounders don't belong to the original team but the logic is solid imo

 

[moose311]

It's this draft. No pick for Niagara.

How "not funny" would it be if they were to win the lottery? Not only would it suck not to pick first, they'd also pick last in the 2nd round....if they have their pick that is.

Niagara has London's 2nd and Kitchener's 2nd, but not their own. Only 5 teams actually still hold their own 2nd round pick.

 

[MatthewsMoustache]

why are they making it a snake draft? dont see the need for that?

To mitigate the benefits of winning the first overall pick? evening the results i guess?

It seems unnecessary given that hardly any team actually has their own 2nd round pick.

 

[Naz]

We will be doing this lottery thing again for the 2022-23 season, as Covid only getting worse than better, Just saying and I hope I'm wrong.

 

[OMG67]

We will be doing this lottery thing again for the 2022-23 season, as Covid only getting worse than better, Just saying and I hope I'm wrong.

The only reason to do the lottery is the season was completely cancelled. I cannot see a situation arising that cancels the season short of the vaccines effectiveness data being a complete lie.

We'll probably see disruption to begin the season but I think once we get through Christmas, fans will be in seats.

 

[Drop the Puck]

It's this draft. No pick for Niagara.

How "not funny" would it be if they were to win the lottery? Not only would it suck not to pick first, they'd also pick last in the 2nd round....if they have their pick that is.

The Colts own that pick.

 

[cupcrazyman]

Mark Hunter knows a guy who knows a guy.

He has already told London he won't report.

 

[cupcrazyman]

No Bingo Balls will be used.

 

[windsor7]

He has already told London he won't report.

Quite a possibility.
Wouldn't surprise the other 19 teams....

 

[Buttsy]

Isn’t this similar to how Crosby ended up in Pittsburgh? Pretty sure this is what Brian Burke always bristled at when he was told he should follow the Pittsburgh model of building a winning team? Cheers all stay safe.

 

[Generalsupdates]

I think if you win a top 3 pick, it matters. Outside of that, I don't think it really matters all that much. I bet if you polled all 20 GM's, there would be like 20-25 different names in their top 3's

 

[Maxxim1]

 

[saska sault]

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I can handle this more than seeing my Wings pick 4th again...

 

[I Loveallsports]

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Lol. Well done

 

[geo105]

Why don't they just hold a regular style draft using the standings, positions for the draft order, when the season was cancelled. The rich get richer and the poor poorer.

 

[Generalsupdates]

Why don't they just hold a regular style draft using the standings, positions for the draft order, when the season was cancelled. The rich get richer and the poor poorer.

Because that's not how junior hockey works. If you were really good one year, odds are you would've been pretty bad the next year

 

[MatthewsMoustache]

Why don't they just hold a regular style draft using the standings, positions for the draft order, when the season was cancelled. The rich get richer and the poor poorer.

What Generalsupdates said. To add to it, a team like Kingston would now have 1st overall in 2019 (Wright), 5th in 2020 (Ludwinski) and 5th again in 2021. We don’t need to reward being bad more than we already do. Or on the other end where teams like Peterborough and Flint are finally getting back to being attractive landing spots that players will report to, will have to pick lower again.

 

[Molson Muscle]

With Niagara not part of the draft lottery how are they determine where they pick in the rest of the draft?

 

[moose311]

With Niagara not part of the draft lottery how are they determine where they pick in the rest of the draft?

On the OHL website, the story says: "The Niagara IceDogs were included in the lottery process in order to determine the order of selection for subsequent rounds and through the random generation of numbers were designated with the 15th position in the first round."

 

[Generalsupdates]

ROUND 1-
1st: SBY
2nd: OSH
3rd: GUE
4th: WSR
5th: KGN
6th: PBO
7th: FLNT
8th: OS
9th: MISS
10th: ER
11th: NB
12th: OTT
13th: SAR
14th: HAM
15th: NIA forfeited
16th: SAG
17th: LDN
18th: KIT
19th: SSM
20th: BAR

ROUND 2-
21st: WSR (via BAR)
22nd: ER (via SSM)
23rd: NIA (via KIT)
24th: NIA (via LDN)
25th: BAR (via SAG)
26th: BAR (via NIA)
27th: LDN (via HAM)
28th: NB (via SAR)
29th: OTT
30th: NB
31st: SAR (via ER)
32nd: GUE (via MISS)
33rd: OTT (via OS)
34th: FLNT
35th: KGN (via PBO)
36th: KGN
37th: SSM (via WSR)
38th: SBY (via GUE)
39th: OSH
40th: MISS (via SBY)

 

[Molson Muscle]

On the OHL website, the story says: "The Niagara IceDogs were included in the lottery process in order to determine the order of selection for subsequent rounds and through the random generation of numbers were designated with the 15th position in the first round."

I had not seen that...thank you.