Sharks reporter leaks that the NHL re-did the Draft Lottery four times
The San Jose Sharks won the No. 1 overall pick in the recent NHL Draft Lottery, and now a reporter has leaked a very intriguing story about the process.
After much anticipation, the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery was a fairly straight forward process, with no teams moving up and everyone drafting exactly where they were expected. Ultimately, it was the San Jose Sharks with a 25% chance at landing the top spot that earned the right to draft Boston University's Macklin Celebrini in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Now, we've learned a bit more about what went on behind the scenes in the moments before the results were announced, including something that has never happened in the history of the NHL Draft Lottery.
But this has never happened in the history of the league, which established a lottery in 1995. Yesterday, it happened not once but twice!"
What that means is, the Sharks not only won the first overall pick, but their number combination came out for the No. 2 overall pick, not once, but twice, forcing the NHL to re-do the second overall pick four times.
Obviously, the Sharks can't win twice, so it forced the NHL to continually re-do things until it was the Chicago Blackhawks that won the second overall pick, in a crazy situation that now leads us to June 28-29 and the NHL Draft.
Source: Habs Fanatics
Major: we just learned that the NHL restarted the lottery 4 times
| POLL | ||
MAI 8 | 165 ANSWERS Sharks reporter leaks that the NHL re-did the Draft Lottery four times Are you satisfied that the San Jose Sharks won the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery? | ||
| Yes | 99 | 60 % |
| No | 66 | 40 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Brandon Hagel | - | 5 | 5 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Nico Hischier | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Macklin Celebrini | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jakob Chychrun | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Seth Jarvis | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Zachary Bolduc | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Will Cuylle | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Lars Eller | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Jake Guentzel | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alex Iafallo | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Ivan Ivan | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Ivan Barbashev | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Drake Batherson | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Simon Edvinsson | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jack Eichel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Morgan Frost | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Miro Heiskanen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 22 | 18 | 4 | - | 36 | |
Devils | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 32 | |
Hurricanes | 21 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 31 | |
Wild | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 30 | |
Golden Knights | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | |
Capitals | 21 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 29 | |
Maple Leafs | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 28 | |
Flames | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | |
Stars | 20 | 13 | 7 | - | 26 | |
Rangers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||