NHL Draft lottery race II - Bruins locked into 5th before ping pong balls.

[goldenblack]

Aren't we more or less worst casing Desnoyers/Eklund/Mcqueen?

 

[Midship]

f*** this team

 

[The Storm]

Guaranteed at least #5 in the lottery. But Philly has one more game!

If they beat Buffalo, Bruins are #4 correct?

Ties are Regulation wins, so we are ahead of the Kraken.

 

[goldenblack]

Guaranteed at least #5 in the lottery. But Philly has one more game!

If they beat Buffalo, Bruins are #4 correct?

Ties are Regulation wins, so we are ahead of the Kraken.

'Philly only needs 1 pt

 

[The don godfather]

If we get frondell or desnoyers out of this consider that a homerun
.

 

[KrugAvoy]

What an unlikable group the 2024-2025 Boston Bruins were.

So annoyed I still have to standings watch until Thursday now.

Going to be dreaming nightmares of Sweeney reaching for Radim Mrtka at 7 because all of the centers are gone

If we did slip to 7, he better take Martone or Eklund. Heck even O'Brien

 

[McBrom7]

Flyers have to try and get a point on the road.

I guess is there’s any hopium, if the Flyers beat the Sabres they will jump them in the standings. So maybe the Sabres mail it in? Buffalo hasn’t been interested in losing at all to end the year though.

 

[NeelyDan]

Buffalo is beating Philly, zero doubt

 

[Fenway]

Philly 'wins' the tiebreaker easily as they only have 21 RW

 

[McBrom7]

Buffalo is beating Philly, zero doubt

It sure feels that way doesn’t it

 

[SPLBRUIN]

Still a chance to be 4th, but at least we are sitting with the 5th pick before the lottery balls kick in. We should be able to get either a Desnoyers, Frondell or Obrien at center or Martone/Eklund on the wing, not too shabby.

 

[HustleB]

I didn’t think they could tank lower than 7. But, here we are, disappointed at 5, lol.

Guess we all have to hold our noses and be Philly fans for a day.

And Eklund is an exciting player at 7. I’d feel a lot worse at 6. Would love to land at 4 but it also wouldn’t shock me if Eklund somehow slipped into the top 6.

 

[NeelyDan]

How many spots can you move up in the lottery max?

 

[The Storm]

Odds of getting the #1 pick

#4 slot 9.5%
#5 slot 8.5%

 

[Fenway]

How many spots can you move up in the lottery max?

10

 

[bp14]

Let’s not try to make lemonade out of this. 4th is the spot we want.

 

[24giovanni]

Philly 'wins' the tiebreaker easily as they only have 21 RW

Meaning Philly or Boston gets the 4th pick plz?

 

[HustleB]

Still a chance to be 4th, but at least we are sitting with the 5th pick before the lottery balls kick in. We should be able to get either a Desnoyers, Frondell or Obrien at center or Martone/Eklund on the wing, not too shabby.

I absolutely like OBrien ahead of McQueen but I’m seeing the opposite in a lot of rankings making me feel like I might be too high on O’Brien possibly.

 

[TooMuchMan]

So it's either a 19.3 or a 17.4 percent chance at a top-three pick, pending the outcome in Buffalo.

Not that much of a difference. Less than a 1 in 50 difference.

The only cumbersome point is on the back end, where the #4 pre-lottery spot is most likely to end up @#5 post-lottery and the #5 pre-lottery most likely ends up at #6 (I'm drawing these numbers from Tankathon).

Obviously, getting the #4 slot is superior but I feel that there's going to be a really, really good option wherever the Bruins end up picking. As much as I loathed the teardown emotionally, choosing to fail forward at the deadline really feels like the right decision.

 

[DieSendungmitderMaus]

Anyone have the chart handy what the lottery outcome percentages are for the 4th and 5th slots? Not the ones of winning outright, just staying in that spot, dropping one, dropping two etc.

 

[Mick Riddleton]

If we get frondell or desnoyers out of this consider that a homerun
.

We had Frondell, when it was 4-3

 

[The don godfather]

Please get frondell he seems like a franchise type.

 

[The don godfather]

We had Frondell, when it was 4-3

Hopefully we stay in 5th at least.

 

[Boston Bandit]

They had to go into OT tonight and get a point, didn’t they?!

 

[JoeIsAStud]

I absolutely like OBrien ahead of McQueen but I’m seeing the opposite in a lot of rankings making me feel like I might be too high on O’Brien possibly.

If they were the same size, I don't think they'd be anywhere close to each other in the rankings. McQueen is all projection based on his size