Pick the 2026 NHL DRAFT Lottery Winner

[Plagers4Ever]

So, bottom line. No team below the Blues moves up over the Blues, and the Blues do not win #1 or #2. Blues drafts picks remain unchanged from yesterday.

[Kilokaai]

The fact they don’t show what numbers are associated with each team until they got down to the final what 6 teams left is a joke.

It would be so easy to let the fans see the numbers you want your team to get pulled but they don’t until the very end. Or why not put each team’s logo on the balls??!!

They are in the draft guide they put out as prep, you can see every number combination that could have happened and who would have won.

[HighStick]

How did Vancouver have a higher percentage to win if every team was represented by 1 ball? There should have been at least 100 balls in that machine. This chit is rigged as bad as the government.

Wat. You didn’t pay attention to how the lottery works.

Please explain how Vancouver had a 19/20% chance when they were represented by 1 ball. Dumbest "lottery" ever!

[LGB73]

If the balls are rigged, the same ones would come up the second time.

How is the draw process rigged when the balls are clearly bouncing around randomly for 15 seconds. No way to know which ball is in the right position when the draw is done.

Each team is assigned a set of 4 number combos before the drawing is held. If the process above is random, how do they get the right codes to the teams they want.

Let the conspiracy theories go because it's pure paranoia. It's legit and happy they made it live so we can see that it is.

[sdaltons]

Do they show what balls the teams need to be pulled? If not this is all just theater until they magically show the last ball needed at the end

Why not show all the balls needed from the jump

Why not just put the names of the teams on the ball? Why do they create this overly complicated number system that just eliminates the transparency of it?

The system seems about as fair as you can possibly get it. The number combinations make it so they only have to put 14 balls in the hopper. If they put in the balls by the actual team they’d have to put in 1000 balls to get to the appropriate percentages to play out.

The draft guide has all the number combos, no idea how you could possibly rig this setup.

Because when something happens that people don't like, it's easiest to cry foul

[callitwhatyouwant]

Hawks got 4th atleast that's half a win. Now we are going to find out that Stenberg is a bust according to our local jabroni.

[Rollin' on the River]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

[the miracle]

If the balls are rigged, the same ones would come up the second time.

How is the draw process rigged when the balls are clearly bouncing around randomly for 15 seconds. No way to know which ball is in the right position when the draw is done.

Each team is assigned a set of 4 number combos before the drawing is held. If the process above is random, how do they get the right codes to the teams they want.

Let the conspiracy theories go because it's pure paranoia. It's legit and happy they made it live so we can see that it is.

Aliens! The Tri-Lateral Commission! Mayor McCheese!

[Walter Sobchak00]

How did Vancouver have a higher percentage to win if every team was represented by 1 ball? There should have been at least 100 balls in that machine. This chit is rigged as bad as the government.

Wat. You didn’t pay attention to how the lottery works.

Please explain how Vancouver had a 19/20% chance when they were represented by 1 ball. Dumbest "lottery" ever!

Each team is assigned a number of combinations based on their odds of winning.

Vancouver had the most combinations, once the balls were picked it eliminated some of those combinations. (Think a raffle ticket they read off and when it gets to a number you don't have the rest of the numbers don't matter)

The percentages changes based on the balls that were chosen and the combinations that were remaining.

[Rollin' on the River]

Don’t care what anybody says…this [nonsense] is rigged..ain’t nobody changing my mind. Feel bad for Canucks fans

That's what I said. Just a couple of days ago and I got flamed for it. There's not one part of this that feels legit.

But but but a huge company wouldn’t help the NHL because they’re too small…..

Or something. [shirt] is rigged. Rigged.

[TBone]

We were 9th right before winning a couple of worthless games….

Who effin cares. It’s two spots. Remember ‘23? No way Dvo was still going to be there for us at 10. Someone always goes “off board”

I care. One year the luck (relatively speaking) will run out.

If someone doesn't go rogue, there's a really good chance we're stuck settling.

[diehardbluesfan1]

We were 9th right before winning a couple of worthless games….

Who effin cares. It’s two spots. Remember ‘23? No way Dvo was still going to be there for us at 10. Someone always goes “off board”

True, but has devo shown elite skills yet? Solid? Sure. Elite? Not yet

[Walter Sobchak00]

Maple Leafs! 1st pick!

Because of COURSE

Last year a big market team, and this year the league sweetheart with a winning problem.

Keep telling me a “56B dollar company wouldn’t rig anything”

It wouldn't.. please tell me how Toronto winning the lottery helps the league make more money..

[Rollin' on the River]

It would be real easy for them to film multiple showings of this until they get the result they want. Calling it “live” is just a show biz front. Totally rigged and will continue to be rigged going forward.

Agreed.



Live just means it wasn’t a cartoon. Play loop until you get the “right teams”

[BleedingBleu]

If the balls are rigged, the same ones would come up the second time.

How is the draw process rigged when the balls are clearly bouncing around randomly for 15 seconds. No way to know which ball is in the right position when the draw is done.

Each team is assigned a set of 4 number combos before the drawing is held. If the process above is random, how do they get the right codes to the teams they want.

Let the conspiracy theories go because it's pure paranoia. It's legit and happy they made it live so we can see that it is.

Aliens! The Tri-Lateral Commission! Mayor McCheese!

You leave Mayor McCheese out of this. Everyone knows Grimace is a hemorrhoid!

[stljrs]

We were 9th right before winning a couple of worthless games….

Who effin cares. It’s two spots. Remember ‘23? No way Dvo was still going to be there for us at 10. Someone always goes “off board”

Big difference between 11 and 2 and I believe winning the last game against Utah bumped us from 9 to 11.