Top 3 teams got leaked before the show began

[Eisen]

You can't broadcast a Draft Lottery live the same way a lottery for money is done. It would be very boring.

I get that, but the guy I was quoting said you can't do it because of potential f*** ups.

 

[sufferer]

Hughes takes being soft spoken to a whole new level.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

I still highly doubt that the process was rigged. Isn't the whole draft lottery process overseen by Ernst & Young? That's a company with an annual revenue many orders of magnitude larger than the NHL. The league literally has nothing that they could offer them that would make it worthwhile for E&Y to put their reputation on the line.

Yeah, if it's oversought by EY, there's no way it's rigged.

 

[Newsworthy]

Figure this was threadworthy.

I didn't watch any coverage. I found out at around 10 pm on NHL Network.

 

[FinnishCoyote]

And the Avs get hosed again. Not rigged at all, right?

Kings and Coyotes have been the real losers imo. Colorado had MacKinnon in 2013 at least, Gabe was drafted in 2011 I think.

LA really needed a top two draft pick here and instead are picking 5th. The Yotes never got a top 3 pick after 2015 when they needed one.

Yeah, i find it funny when Avs fans are talking about getting hosed. For real, 6 years ago you got your 1st overall who's good for 95-100 points. Look what has happened to Nucks and Yotes at lotteries

 

[Empoleon8771]

Doesn't the NHL claim it's done behind closed doors? One man draws and another brings out the results and they are seen for the first time as we view them.

Proves this whole process is shady and could very well be rigged.

NHL was just caught lying!

People making logical jumps because they want to? Why I've never seen such a thing!

 

[Brock Radunske]

With all those high picks the Devils have had recently, I wonder if they'll become the Oilers/Sabres or the Leafs/Jets?

 

[aufheben]

Try being a Wings fan! 1990 was our last top 3 pick at number 3.

The last time the Rangers drafted in the top-3 was 1968 lol. 24-player draft.

 

[Rob Brown]

Ernst & Young's role is to oversee the process by which the lottery is held, to ensure that everything goes smoothly and there are no problems, to verify the numbers drawn and match those to the list of combinations to see which team it corresponds to, and certify that nothing illegal or improper happened which would call into question the accuracy or legitimacy of the results of the lottery drawings.

It's not their responsibility to put the cards in the correct order for TV, nor is it their responsibility to ensure that the network broadcast video prepared to communicate the results is embargoed in some way. [Among a long list of other things they're not responsible for.] So ... explain how E&Y made a mistake here.

I didn't say that E&Y made a mistake. The guy I quoted implied that there was a single "guy" running the lottery and that it was him that messed up by showing the results early on screen. I clarified that the entire lottery process is audited and that there is no single "guy" running things. No need to lecture me.

Unfortunately people are mistaking Sportsnet, who made the on-screen error, with the NHL/E&Y, who actually ran and audited the lottery.

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

I don't understand why they don't do it like in soccer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmAddLiRqCc Like this.

 

[Atas2000]

Try proving to me that a process behind closed doors(apparently not locked though) is all about luck and probability. I mean it might be, but the league does nothing to convince me to say the least. That accident just adds to the resume.

 

[NYRFAN218]

The NHL posted the video of the actual lottery up on their website. It began at 7:30 and ended around 7:45. They showed a newspaper dated yesterday as evidence it was conducted yesterday as well. There’s really no great conspiracy here. They did it an hour before they revealed the results (can’t do it closer probably just in case there’s an error or some sort of malfunction or whatever) and Bettman or whoever from the NHL probably gave TV the heads up on the order so they were properly prepared with graphics, notes on the teams as the picks were unveiled, questions for Shero, etc. Someone in production simply blew it with the graphic going up is all.

 

[Muikea Bulju]

The draw was made earlier today, I'm sure the TV executives have known for hours now. Not sure why people are saying this means it's rigged.

On the video they have published from an earlier Lottery (2015), the actual drawing starter at 7.45 PM, when the Draft Lottery show started at 8.00 PM

 

[Goalie guy]

At least Wings fans have had a chance to enjoy from this lesser award four times during the period.

So did the Hawks whats your point? And yet here they are at 3 again. Again last 3rd we had was 1990. The lotto is a joke.

 

[YMCMBYOLO]

Its your job for TEN MINUTES to NOT leak secret information. And then you violate that by LEAKING SECRET INFORMATION. You should get fired.

No apology or recognition in that your opinion was clearly wrong. No response after getting exposed.

Just air in the room. Lol.


Sports net is pretty amateur however. Add this to the resume.

 

[Muikea Bulju]

Here is the 2019 NHL Draft Lottery Drawing

 

[justafan22]

It's not rigged, but the broadcast graphic was done beforehand, and someone's getting fired.

Inside the 2019 NHL Draft Lottery Room - Sportsnet.ca

 

[IndustryLeech]

I've suggested the process is rigged. I don't actually believe that and such a statement is born of frustration and not actual facts.

That said, people putting forth the narrative that it COULDN'T happen are just as delusional as those that say it did. Just because an accounting firm oversees the lottery doesn't preclude the process from mistakes (2017 Oscars, anyone?) and/or corruption.

 

[Marner]

It’s always done in advance. They usually release an actual video with the ping pong balls

 

[Rich Nixon]

It's not rigged, but the broadcast graphic was done beforehand, and someone's getting fired.

Inside the 2019 NHL Draft Lottery Room - Sportsnet.ca

For the millionth time, this was only seen on Viasat in Europe, which broadcasts NHL events without commercial cutaways. It happened minutes before the announcement itself as the graphics were being cued up for broadcast during commercial break, which is pretty standard procedure.

Nothing was leaked. No one screwed up. No one's getting fired. A handful of Fins and Swedes who were up at 3:20AM local time saw the results a half hour before North American audiences did.

 

[IslesNorway]

I still find it amazing they can't figure out a way of making the draw both live and exciting at the same time...

 

[SmCurse]

Watching the video it looks like the graphics department was making sure everything worked during a commercial break (pretty standard) but were unaware that they were currently on the air on something that wasn't airing commercials.

Shoulda done it on a private feed, I guess.

Yep, that's how they do it with live games too when Viasat won't bother to put their own content to replace "the raw feed". There's been some funny stuff during years. I remember female reporter on the ice level, behind the glass, arguing with somebody that "she wont say that" multiple times and then starts her piece smiling 30 seconds later. Usually they are editing replay content though. North remembers - north is watching when you are not.

 

[HockeyDBspecialist]

I still highly doubt that the process was rigged. Isn't the whole draft lottery process overseen by Ernst & Young? That's a company with an annual revenue many orders of magnitude larger than the NHL. The league literally has nothing that they could offer them that would make it worthwhile for E&Y to put their reputation on the line.

I understand your point, but it's not because a company has a bigger revenue than you that you can't offer them anything...

 

[SML2]

Are there people out there who were under the impression the draw was live? How do you geniuses suppose they knew what order to put the cards in? I haven't seen this board act this foolishly since I was spreading the word the League rigged the draft so Crosby would keep Pittsburgh out of bankruptcy.

 

[SKRusty]

Are there people out there who were under the impression the draw was live? How do you geniuses suppose they knew what order to put the cards in? I haven't seen this board act this foolishly since I was spreading the word the League rigged the draft so Crosby would keep Pittsburgh out of bankruptcy.

The years they did the balls live the fans clamored for a change as the drawing of the balls took away from the event itself, so the NHL obliged.