The NHL held the draft lottery for the 2020 NHL Draft on Friday, and it couldn't have produced a more unexpected result. You should be working at the NHL head offices. First, there was a lottery back in June where the seven teams not participating in the postseason found out where they slotted for the draft. It’s absolutely perfect. Not sure why I missed that math error, other than a 4-month disconnect from game action. Carolina gives the worst of the 2 picks, it doesn’t matter what happens the rags aren’t getting number 1! 15. 2 Los Angeles KingsNo. 8:20 pm ET, at I mean you basically can just run this type of spectacle after round 1 and get more eyes on the show for all the teams eliminated. Hopefully the folks in Countersport will buy back the team. 2020 NHL Draft Lottery Results June 26, 2020 at 7:25 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 55 Comments Friday, June 26 was originally intended to be the opening night of the NHL Entry Draft. Important, if the Stanley Cup Playoffs cannot be completed, that the NHL has a mechanism in place to decide which teams will be in Phase 2 of the lottery. NHL Draft Lottery 2020 results: Mystery qualifying round team wins lottery, Kings to pick second, Sens third Following along with our live coverage of the NHL Draft Lottery HabsWorld.net -- Instead of Friday being the first day of the draft in Montreal as originally scheduled, the NHL held the first phase of its lottery instead and helped clarify some scenarios for where the Habs may be drafting in October. Couldn’t agree more. at Los Angeles Kings3. The remaining 16 slots (No. Oh, you know it. That depends on who you are. Here is the complete 2020 NHL Draft order after Phase 2 lottery drawing. this was seemed rigged yes. And it’s so exciting. That system makes 100x more sense than the incredibly complicated and diluted system they presented last night. View traded picks and playoff matchups. We will now hear rumblings about how good he was at getting this selection. pic.twitter.com/tdaThgXPDI, A closer look at the ODDS ahead of the 2020 #NHLDraft Lottery. Everybody but a “playoff” team got screwed. One of these "placeholder" teams won the lottery with the 12th-best odds. Anaheim Ducks – 8.5% When the top three picks are finalized, the order for the remainder of the first round will be determined by 2019-2020 points percentage. 8:03 pm ET, at HabsWorld.net -- Instead of Friday being the first day of the draft in Montreal as originally scheduled, the NHL held the first phase of its lottery instead and helped clarify some scenarios for where the Habs may be drafting in October. Here is the complete 2020 NHL Draft order after Phase 2 lottery drawing. 10:16 pm ET, at I’d call that a W. Because, folks, some of us just love to watch the sports world burn. 8:15 pm ET, at I lose my series. “Team E” — one of the teams with a placeholder slot — won the lottery. Below are the odds for each Phase 1 team to win the No. They didn’t need to rig the draft, the odds were already against the worst team in the draft. I really hope after this all that we return to a far more fair system. they are only two qualifiers I think could win the cup, welcome to everyone’s favorite game show: Throw for Lafreniere. Please login to leave a reply. 5 Ottawa SenatorsNo. They were just terrible. They all got screwed. 8 Buffalo SabresNo. But as we said earlier, none of those teams were selected to pick first overall. The other seven teams will be assigned positions 9-15, in inverse order of their points percentages at the time the regular season was paused. What is going on? 3. 9:42 pm ET, at Worst possible outcome for #RedWings, who had 50.6 percent chance of drafting 4th despite finishing with by far the worst record in the NHL. Happy to move up to #2 but man I really thought we had Laffy. In a shocking turn of events, one of the placeholder teams -- which will come from the eight teams that are knocked out in the Stanley Cup Playoffs qualifying round -- won the lottery from the spot with the 12th-best odds. Too bad he can’t be in the middle of laughing his ass off, then turn around and walk into a wall! New Jersey Devils. 4 Detroit Red WingsNo. But for the seven others that failed to get into the playoff picture, their conclusion (and the first step of the offseason) came on Friday night when the 2020 Draft Lottery kicked off. 8:28 pm ET, at 16-31) will be determined by the results of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs with the champion tentatively scheduled to pick 31st. 1 overall selection, it was the third-worst team from the qualification round. If they did the actual ping-pong ball routine live so everyone could see what happens rather than slithering out of the back room with what are supposedly the results, they would gain a lot more credibility. Doesn’t a playoff team get the first pick? He'll now likely suit up under the bright lights of Broadway with the likes of Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad and No. Who came up with that?! — Gongshow Gary (@SuckMyDeke) June 27, 2020. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. Watch the 2020 #NHLDraft Lottery at 8p ET on @NHLonNBCSports, @NHLNetwork and @Sportsnet. NHL lottery simulator to determine the top overall pick. So, 7, and not 8 should have been the preliminary draft lottery, followed by the next 8, then the final 16. It takes a lot of effort to be that bad. The 2020 NHL Draft Lottery results are in A Qualifying Round team will get the first-overall pick at the 2020 NHL Draft by Shauna Denis @CanadiensMTL / canadiens.com Ottawa Senators – 13.5% While the league didn’t announce which placeholder team ’won’ the pick, Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports reports (via Twitter) that it was Qualifier Team E. The grand prize in this lottery is a chance to select Rimouski (QMJHL) winger Alexis Lafreniere, the CHL’s top player in each of the last two seasons.  He has been dominant at the major junior level, compiling 114 goals and 183 assists in just 173 games, one of which came as a 15-year-old underager.  He’s expected to be ready to make the jump to the NHL right away and be an impact player in a hurry.  We’ll be waiting a while yet to find out who gets him though. The #1 reveal gave mega blue balls to Kings fans who saw the black NHL logo. We still don’t know which teams are participating because the playoffs haven’t happened yet. 3) Ottawa (via San Jose) Qualifier Team H – 1.0%. Toronto’s pick is top 10 protected and the Rangers get the lower pick so the only way this works I believe is if the leafs lose and end up at 9 or 10 (which requires a number of upsets in this play in) and the canes lose to Nyr and win the draft lottery. The NHL 2020 Draft lottery devolved into complete chaos on Friday night and it was perfect. If they beat Carolina and Tor. This is the fourth draft lottery in a row they lost and they were the worst team in the league BY FAR. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2020/06/nhl-2020-draft-lottery-results-explained, NFL Week 5 betting locks: Stay away from Washington and the Jets, 2020 French Open, Sofia Kenin vs. Petra Kvitova, Women's Semifinals live stream, odds, TV channel, start time, Could the Titans be forced to forfeit? If carolina wins the lottery and toronto ends up with the 11th pick then the rangers would pick 11th. The NYR can win the cup and get the #1 pick. 2020 NHL Draft Lottery Results By Brian La Rose – June 26, 2020. Teams ranked 8-15 from the season’s standings each get 12.5% chance of winning the second phase of the lottery. Toronto does have to lose or it becomes a moot point, Toronto would have to be in the top 10 for that to even work. 3 overall. After the qualifying round, the eight teams that are eliminated will have equally-weighted odds to win the top pick in Phase 2 of the NHL Draft Lottery. 1 pick in the draft. still those ping pong balls will be weighted by Bettman , so it will still be rigged even in front of true NHL Fans.