in the game of 2018 NHL Lottery, you win, or you draft some dman
given that they basically draw for the top-3 positions and everyone else moves down accordingly, and this draft appears to have a clear top-3 prospects, with a grand prize of a franchise caliber offensive dman, it's an interesting year for this lottery thing
(the other 2 prizes are scoring wingers btw)
after those 3 many of the other lottery picks will likely be other offensive dman
lots of bad teams will probably be drafting their future PPQBs this summer
some stuff i wrote on this draft previously
fwiw my tiered lottery rooting interest rankings:
last. Chicago - **** them, they don't deserve ****
13. Edmonton - see above
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12. Ottawa - **** Mean Gene
11. Florida - Lol Tallon
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10. Detroit - don't really want to see them get a bailout here
9. Buffalo - nothing against them, but just boring & bad, don't want to see a good player wasted there
8. Arizona - see above
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7. NY Rangers - won't even be mad if they won, but meh to big markets getting lucky
6. Philly - see above
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5. Dallas - adding another star there? sure, why not
4. Carolina - this new weirdo owner aside, they could use a star
3. Montreal - Lol Bergy, but that market getting a star appeals to me for some reason
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2. NY Islanders - need it after Tavares leaves, and it would be hilarious if they won with Calgary's pick
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1. Vancouver - seriously considered putting them lower because i don't want to see that moran get bailed out