GDT: Draft lottery

[AngelDuck]

We’ve dropped 3 straight years. Just an absolutely miserable system

 

[Gliff]

The Ducks have to be the unluckiest franchise in the NHL lol.

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

So Eklund, Clarke, Hughes with an outside chance of Beniers...?

Sounds about right to me.

 

[Vipers31]

I would have been fine with 3 going into today, but it’s definitely annoying to end up losing out on a top-2 pick just when the odds actually looked to be in our favor.

 

[DigiDuck]

OK with 3...I hope Bob is looking at what he can get for it though.

 

[Cs7980]

Also...if the team with the worst record has been winning the top prize less than 30% of the time...i don't understand how that's a success. This isn't baseball.

Just watch. Next year Ducks will end up dead last and not with the draft lottery.

 

[Terry Yake]

so no one's gonna mention how another taylor hall team just won the lottery?

 

[Paul4587]

Not exactly....

Spoke too soon, thought we were winning. Sue me.

 

[Terry Yake]

 

[bsu]

so no one's gonna mention how another taylor hall team just won the lottery?

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Woke up with a feeling that we’re gonna win #1

Did you fall asleep with ear buds, too?

 

[Anaheim4ever]

The top 2 picks will make the NHL first but the 3-4-5 picks could be better players when all is said and done. Please don't take Edvinsson at 3 though!

Yeah Hughes could end up being Quinn Hughes 2.0, a franchise 60 point dman.

 

[AngelDuck]

Very few positives to be gained from today. This franchise needed a big break and didn’t get it. Sucks

 

[DigiDuck]

So what you're saying is BM should sign him for the first half of the year and then trade him? I'm onboard.

 

[Big Fat Rebound]

Of course, this year is the year the expansion team in the top 3 by default moves UP and it’s at our expense.

The only reasons I’m not royally pissed off are because I think this could be a year like 2017 where 3-8 are significantly better long-term than the top 2 and because we didn’t get jumped by the Kings or the Sharks. But it still sucks

 

[Terry Yake]

Very few positives to be gained from today. This franchise needed a big break and didn’t get it. Sucks

this was not the draft to win the #1 pick in

meanwhile, next year.......

 

[duckaroosky]

The Ducks have to be the unluckiest franchise in the NHL lol.

Unlucky or just treated like the red-headed stepchild of the league?

 

[AngelDuck]

this was not the draft to win the #1 pick in

meanwhile, next year.......

They aren’t going to be in a position to win the lottery next year. Have you seen the division we’re entering? We’ll be picking 8-15 next season

 

[bsu]

this was not the draft to win the #1 pick in

meanwhile, next year.......

We aren't getting the #1 pick next year.

 

[DigiDuck]

Next year is going to look different with the Canadian teams having to play against real competition again.

 

[Sendhelp2Anaheim]

Very few positives to be gained from today. This franchise needed a big break and didn’t get it. Sucks

Meh idk if it’s that bad I feel like 1-3 are all personal preference.... we’re likely getting a similar quality player that we would have gotten at 1 or 2

 

[ADHB]

this was not the draft to win the #1 pick in

meanwhile, next year.......

I know people believe in superstition and all, and you're just making a point so not criticizing you, but obviously our odds of winning #1 next year are exactly the same now as they were before.

 

[Terry Yake]

We aren't getting the #1 pick next year.

we're never getting a #1 pick period

just pointing out how next year's draft would've been the time to get it

 

[Vaakou]

Yeah Hughes could end up being Quinn Hughes 2.0, a franchise 60 point dman.

They are nothing alike.

 

[Trojans86]

this was not the draft to win the #1 pick in

meanwhile, next year.......

Yep. As annoying as it is to be the only team to drop, i dont think ive ever seen a draft with less of a difference between #1 and #3