Sabres 2017 NHL Draft Options Brian Matthews | May 3, 2017 The Buffalo Sabres lost the NHL’s draft lottery – again. Sure they didn’t have the best odds in the field (approximately an 8 percent chance of moving into the top three),…
Tanking Killed the NHL Lottery Jeff Seide | May 2, 2017 Though they weigh a mere 2.7 grams and their radius is only 20mm, a ping pong ball’s influence in the NHL draft lottery is enormous. The series of four numbered…
2017 NHL Draft Lottery Primer Jeff Seide | April 29, 2017 The NHL Draft Lottery takes place Saturday night in Toronto. For just the second time in NHL draft lottery history, each of the 14 teams that did not make the…
The Nuck Stops Here: Draft Lottery, Sven Baertschi Markus Meyer | May 2, 2016 ‘The Nuck Stops Here’ is a Vancouver Canucks news and opinion column running every Sunday throughout the season. NEWS Canucks fall two spots in draft lottery, to pick 5th overall in draft…
Habs Fans’ Fingers Crossed on Draft Lottery Day Gregory Katz | April 30, 2016 Welcome to Draft Lottery Day, hopeful Habs fans! This season wasn’t fun for the team in red, white and blue, but the annual draft lottery can make up for some of…
The NHL Draft Lottery Is Not About the Edmonton Oilers Rob Soria | April 30, 2016 It is that time of year again. While it may be little later than normal, today is the day we find out who will have the honour of making the first…
Auston Matthews Is the Prize the Oilers Want Rob Soria | April 27, 2016 After drafting first overall in four of the last six years, it seems as though certain chunks of the Edmonton Oilers fan base have started to lose their collective marbles.…
What if the Buffalo Sabres Win the Lottery? Chad DeDominicis | April 23, 2016 The Buffalo Sabres will once again be in the NHL Draft Lottery that will be held on Saturday, April, 30th. The past two years the Sabres have come into the drawing with…
The Edmonton Oilers and NHL Draft Lottery Rob Soria | March 18, 2016 It is no secret that over the past decade, no NHL team has been as bad as the Edmonton Oilers. With nine meaningless games left on their 2015-16 schedule, this…
Doomsday Draft Lottery Scenarios Mark Scheig | March 9, 2016 This year’s NHL draft lottery has a very different dynamic to it. We will see the début of the top three spots all determined by a bounce of some lottery…
The NHL: The League That Rewards Losing Mark Scheig | February 24, 2016 The NHL has a growing problem that won’t go away anytime soon, it appears. The problem is that losing teams keep getting rewarded in some capacity. Whether you are talking…
With McDavid Coming It’s Time For Oilers To Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is Shane Sander | April 19, 2015 In what can only be described as the biggest swerve in draft lottery history the Edmonton Oilers miraculously won a fourth 1st overall selection in six years meaning Connor McDavid…
