NHL Draft Lottery Open Thread - Tampa's picking 2nd

by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 7:28 PM EDT Comment 8 comments

Verus (by way of TSN thru the National Hockey League in cooperation with the NHLPA and several other ridiculous acryonyms) presents the 2009 National Hockey League Draft Lottery... Where teams have a 50-50 chance of "winning", but with only a 10 percent chance of that.

The percentage chance of being selected in the lottery is as follows, based on team finish:

N.Y. Islanders: 25%
Tampa Bay: 18.8%
Colorado: 14.2%
Atlanta: 10.7%
Los Angeles: 8.1%
Phoenix: 6.2%
Toronto: 4.7%
Dallas: 3.6%
Ottawa: 2.7%
Edmonton: 2.1%
Nashville: 1.5%
Minnesota: 1.1%
Buffalo: 0.8%
Florida: 0.5%

UPDATED: Tampa Bay has drawn the 2nd selection in the Entry Draft. The top five slots were unaffected by the draft lottery gimmick.

This is an open comment thread... Leaving remarks in general is allowed here as well as remarking about the draft, the lottery, the prospects and the playoffs.

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So, Tavares, Hedman...

Who makes up the second tier properties in the draft?

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 5:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Chris from The Program here….should be interesting tonight. I picked Tampa in our bloggers pool to win the lottery.

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by stevens8204 on Apr 14, 2009 6:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh, hey hey Chris, how goes it?

For drama sake, that would really add to the drama in TB with volatility from ownership and the future of Vincent Lecavalier (Cassie will have a story about that later on tonight)

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of which

That story is up

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

TSN / Versus broadcasting live now

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 8:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

and I always hate these TSN Telecasts

feel too canned.

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That and they never talk about team NEEDS

They make ONE shallow statement about how a top pick would help — and then focus on only the very top prospect. That’s cruel to the rest of the players coming out this year who have a chance to be drafted in the 1st round.

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by John Fontana on Apr 14, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs