Are You Having a Draft Lottery Party on Saturday?

[SpikedLemonade]

Draft Lottery to be conducted Saturday, April 18



Winning Team to be Revealed in Televised Announcement on CBC, TVA Sports and NBC



TORONTO -- The 2015 NHL Draft Lottery, a weighted system implemented and utilized to determine the order of selection in the first round of the 2015 NHL Draft for the 14 Clubs not qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs (or the Clubs that have acquired the first-round drafting positions of those non-playoff teams), will take place on Saturday, April 18 at 8 p.m., ET.

The results of the Draft Lottery will be revealed live on CBC and TVA Sports in Canada and NBC in the U.S. immediately preceding the start of Game 2 of the Penguins-Rangers First Round series....

Fourteen balls, numbered 1 to 14, are placed in a lottery machine. The machine randomly selects four balls. The resulting four-number series (without regard to selection order) is matched against a chart that shows all possible combinations and the Clubs to which each is assigned.

The chart of assigned combinations will be posted at NHL.com on Friday, April 17. The complete process, including the video of the lottery drawing, also will be available on NHL.com after the lottery is conducted....


http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=7...vid=nhl-search

[elltrain22]

I don't know if you'd call it a party, but I am going to heavily consuming adult beverages from 5-8, then when the announcement is made I already have the Buffalo Sabres with McDavid & Eichel on NHL 15, and whomever we get is staying, and whoever is gets first controller, is playing me with the 2015-16 Buffalo Sabres. Pretty boring, but I'm fired up about it!!

BTW, the next thing I'll do, is buy either an Eichel or McDavid jersey ASAP.

[Skooby]

I'm never sober, so I guess I'm in.

[Dr. Lecter]

I was planning on it, and then I decided to have a Bruins playoff support party instead.

Jack Edwards is the guest of honor so we can hear how the NHL rigged the entire season. Without that, the Bruins would have gone 83-0-0 in the 82 game regular season

[Woodman]

Bruins lmao.

[Downinfloflo]

I'm not..

[JATMtheJATM]

I was planning on it, and then I decided to have a Bruins playoff support party instead.

Jack Edwards is the guest of honor so we can hear how the NHL rigged the entire season. Without that, the Bruins would have gone 83-0-0 in the 82 game regular season

every bruins hit is legal. every bruin touched is a crime against humanity with him.

[OpIv37]

As we speak, Bettman is talking with Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Toronto and Boston, trying to see what they'll give up to get the first pick. And I don't mean money. I mean years of being his yes-man.

Buffalo will never get McDavid.

[Dr. Lecter]

As we speak, Bettman is talking with Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Toronto and Boston, trying to see what they'll give up to get the first pick. And I don't mean money. I mean years of being his yes-man.

Buffalo will never get McDavid.

If the NHL was so intent on screwing the Sabres, why didn't they go ahead with their original plans to change the lottery system this year?

There is no grand conspiracy.

[Dr. Lecter]

And, fwiw, the odds are they won't get him. So if they don't it's not proof at all

[OpIv37]

If the NHL was so intent on screwing the Sabres, why didn't they go ahead with their original plans to change the lottery system this year?

There is no grand conspiracy.

Once again, it has NOTHING to do with screwing the Sabres.

It has to do with making money and the league exercising power over teams.

Hockey works in Buffalo. It always has and it always will- the league doesn't need McDavid in Buffalo to make money. They don't need him to make money in Boston or Toronto either, but they'll make a LOT more money with him in one of those places than Buffalo because they're bigger cities with more money. The other cities I mentioned are **** hockey markets who will get a bandwagon boost from McDavid.

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And, fwiw, the odds are they won't get him. So if they don't it's not proof at all

Right. If the Sabres don't get him, it's not proof. If Boston does, well it's not a smoking gun, but you'd be a moron not to find that suspicious.

[YardRat]

They did change the lottery system this year, didn't they?

[JATMtheJATM]

They did change the lottery system this year, didn't they?

The percentages, yes

[stuckincincy]

As we speak, Bettman is talking with Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Toronto and Boston, trying to see what they'll give up to get the first pick. And I don't mean money. I mean years of being his yes-man.

Buffalo will never get McDavid.

A ride in Mr. Peabody's Way-Back Machine indicates:

..."In 1970, two new franchises were awarded in the NHL — the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks. It was a foregone conclusion that Perrault would be the first selection in the 1970 Entry Draft. The two new teams took part in a roulette wheel spin to determine who would get the first pick. Ultimately, the Canucks were allocated numbers 1-10 on the wheel, while the Sabres had 11-20. When league president Clarence Campbell spun the wheel, he initially thought the pointer landed on 1 and started to congratulate the Vancouver delegation. However, Sabres coach/general manager Punch Imlach asked Campbell to check again. As it turned out, the pointer was on 11."...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Perreault

[Skooby]

A ride in Mr. Peabody's Way-Back Machine indicates:

..."In 1970, two new franchises were awarded in the NHL — the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks. It was a foregone conclusion that Perrault would be the first selection in the 1970 Entry Draft. The two new teams took part in a roulette wheel spin to determine who would get the first pick. Ultimately, the Canucks were allocated numbers 1-10 on the wheel, while the Sabres had 11-20. When league president Clarence Campbell spun the wheel, he initially thought the pointer landed on 1 and started to congratulate the Vancouver delegation. However, Sabres coach/general manager Punch Imlach asked Campbell to check again. As it turned out, the pointer was on 11."...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Perreault

Even then they were trying to screw us, son of a .....

[Dr. Lecter]

Once again, it has NOTHING to do with screwing the Sabres.

It has to do with making money and the league exercising power over teams.

Hockey works in Buffalo. It always has and it always will- the league doesn't need McDavid in Buffalo to make money. They don't need him to make money in Boston or Toronto either, but they'll make a LOT more money with him in one of those places than Buffalo because they're bigger cities with more money. The other cities I mentioned are **** hockey markets who will get a bandwagon boost from McDavid.

Then they would have changed the lottery this year and bumped the Sabres down to 3rd (or 4th), allowing two of those cities to reap the benefits of the lottery.

[mightysimi]

Haha you guys would be torching Patti with this kind of unfound/unprovable conspiracy theory!!

[OpIv37]

Then they would have changed the lottery this year and bumped the Sabres down to 3rd (or 4th), allowing two of those cities to reap the benefits of the lottery.

Now that would have been screwing the Sabres. They did change the rules to reduce the Sabres' chances from 25% to 20%, but again the rules are irrelevant because they manipulate it anyway.

[OpIv37]

Haha you guys would be torching Patti with this kind of unfound/unprovable conspiracy theory!!

Once again, the NHL draft lottery is a closed process that often has supposedly "random" outcomes that are both statistically unlikely and in the best financial interest of the league. It's not a smoking gun but there is reasonable cause for suspicion.

[mightysimi]

You can't actually believe that. How in any way would it be beneficial to the league to grant the 1st pick to Edmonton 3 times in a row? Hockey is already popular in Canada. They didn't need to jump start the game in Emonton of all places. No way having 3 X 1's go to Emonton is the best financial desicion for the league. If they wanted the top players to go to the southern teams it would have been happening all along.

I understand that it is closed which can cause suspicion but they are drawing 1 ball. How can they count down from 15 to 1 with everyone knowing the outcome? You would be ruining the draft special.