NHL Lottery May 5th

[Weave]

This stupid event has more pages of conversation than a mid season Sabres game.

Even Promo the Bot is more active than for actual games.

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Weave

[GASabresIUFAN]

5 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Islanders is rigged? If it was rigged it would have been Boston or Pittsburgh. 

Rigged against Buffalo 

[inkman]

10 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Rigged against Buffalo 

The league doesn’t need to bother.  The Sabres are perfectly capable of ineptitude without the assistance.  

[GoPuckYourself]

12 hours ago, sabremike said:

The theory is the league did it as a make good for hosing them out of the ASG (which the team used access to as a renewal incentive BTW).

(Yes I know it's total nonsense).

Gotta love those conspiracies.

[dudacek]

Athletic's instant mock has the Sabres taking Brady Martin over McQueen, which I think would delight most of us.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6335303/2025/05/05/nhl-mock-draft-2025-schaefer-islanders/

Frondell, O'Brien, Mtrka were 6-7-8.

Thoughts?

[Taro T]

10 hours ago, shrader said:

Did Utah jump a full 10 spots by winning the second drawing or did they jump 9? It feels strange that the prize for them would be identical whether they win the first or the second drawing. 
 

And actually, this has me wondering about a different scenario. What if it had been reversed, Utah wins the first drawing and the Islanders the second. Does NYI wind up with 1 overall in that scenario?

Aisles would've gotten the 2nd pick in that scenario.  The Snarks would get pick 1.  The Fighting Mormons get 4 and whoever started out at 2 gets 3.

[LGR4GM]

4 minutes ago, dudacek said:

Athletic's instant mock has the Sabres taking Brady Martin over McQueen, which I think would delight most of us.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6335303/2025/05/05/nhl-mock-draft-2025-schaefer-islanders/

Frondell, O'Brien, Mtrka were 6-7-8.

Thoughts?

It's possible. Like 6ish-14ish is roughly interchangeable. Not in reality when it's all send and done but here and now. 

[shrader]

1 hour ago, Taro T said:

Aisles would've gotten the 2nd pick in that scenario.  The Snarks would get pick 1.  The Fighting Mormons get 4 and whoever started out at 2 gets 3.

I guess it doesn’t matter too much, but I feel like Utah should have moved up one less spot since they didn’t win the first draw. I guess they can’t set it up that way because it could lead to a scenario where both winners are supposed to move up to the same spot (15 wins and moves up to 5, 14 then wins and would also go up to 5th).