Well, today's the big day for the bottom feeders. Kind of anti-climatic this as the last two years have been generational drafts.
There's been a lot of talk in the Vancouver media about whether the draft lottery under the current structure is fair and equitable for the team's who finish at the bottom of standings and whether is actually achieves the desired effect of preventing some monumental tank jobs like we've seen in the past.
This year the Av's have an 18% chance of landing the first pick, which is down 2% from last year where the Leafs had a 20% chance of landing Matthews. Makes you realize just how lucky the Leafs were last year. Wink wink.
1. Colorado Avalanche, 18.0%
2. Vancouver Canucks, 12.1%
T3. x-Vegas Golden Knights, 10.3%
T3. Arizona Coyotes, 10.3%
5. New Jersey Devils, 8.5%Vancouver's odds of landing each picks are as follows:
1. 12.1%
2. 11.8%
3. 11.3%
4. 34%
5. 30.7%The whole process seems fishy - I want to see the actual draft being selected with the bingo balls etc. I don't want baldy locks Daly coming out with the cards in sealed envelopes. Smells like a scam. It also seems like the bottom placed teams should have at least sightly higher odds of landing a top 3 pick.
But the kicker is that nobody, except for the NHL, has access to the actual lottery process, all GM's and Presidents are totally sequestered -- which is odd.
http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nh ... -odds-work