Odds of Jets winning draft lottery this year are slim
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Odds for the Nolan Patrick sweepstakes have been released, and the probability of the Winnipeg Jets landing the projected No. 1 pick in June’s NHL Draft is slim.
The Jets, who finished the 2016-17 NHL regular season in ninth place in the Western Conference and 20th overall, will have a 2.7 per cent chance of hearing their name called for the first-overall selection when results of the draft lottery are announced in Toronto on Saturday, April 29.
The NHL draft lottery consists of three separate draws — one for each of the first three picks — and will ultimately determine the order selection of the first 15 teams in the first round of the draft. The 12 clubs not selected in the draft lottery will be assigned selections 4 through 15, in inverse order of regular-season points.
All 14 teams that didn’t make the playoffs have weighted odds in the lottery, depending on where they finished in the standings. This year will feature a 15th team due to the addition of the expansion Vegas Golden Knights, who are given the same odds as the 28th team in the league (10.3 per cent). The best odds belong to the Colorado Avalanche, who finished the year with a league-worst record of 22-56-4, at 18 per cent.
In order to accommodate the Golden Knights, the odds for the remaining 14 teams have been reduced proportionally from the odds that were used to determine last year’s picks.
Jets fans will remember in 2016 when Winnipeg won the draft lottery, slotting into the second overall pick, despite entering with just a 7.5 per cent chance of earning the top pick. The Jets eventually landed Finnish star Patrik Laine, who led the team in goals with 36 and is contention for the Calder Trophy, awarded to the league’s top rookie.
The NHL Draft will take place at the United Center in Chicago June 23-24.
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By the numbers
The allocation of odds for the 1st Lottery Draw of the 2017 NHL Draft Lottery is as follows:
(Fewest Pts. to Most) Odds
Colorado Avalanche 18.0%
Vancouver Canucks 12.1%
Vegas Golden Knights * 10.3%
Arizona Coyotes 10.3%
New Jersey Devils 8.5%
Buffalo Sabres 7.6%
Detroit Red Wings 6.7%
Dallas Stars 5.8%
Florida Panthers 5.4%
Los Angeles Kings 4.5%
Carolina Hurricanes 3.2%
Winnipeg Jets 2.7%
Philadelphia Flyers 2.2%
Tampa Bay Lightning 1.8%
New York Islanders 0.9%
* Vegas assigned same lottery odds as the team finishing the regular season in 28th place
Jeff Hamilton
Multimedia producer
Jeff Hamilton is a sports and investigative reporter. Jeff joined the Free Press newsroom in April 2015, and has been covering the local sports scene since graduating from Carleton University’s journalism program in 2012. Read more about Jeff.
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