The NHL Draft Lottery will look very different in 2020 but this isn't the first time the format has been changed. RoryBoylen looks back on the history of the event.
The Sharks made the playoffs this season, but held Florida’s first-round pick and won the lottery with it. However, the Sharks made a trade deadline deal with the Lightning which allowed Tampa Bay the option to swap first-round picks. After losing the lottery, the Lightning went through with the swap and picked Vincent Lecavalier first overall anyway.This, of course, was the Sedin draft year where then-Canucks GM Brian Burke worked some trade magic.
In 2014 the second-last place team in the league won the lottery again. This time it was Florida with some good lottery luck, as they moved ahead of the Buffalo Sabres. The Panthers took Aaron Ekblad first overall and the Sabres got Sam Reinhart second .To discourage tanking even more, the NHL changed its lottery odds in 2015 to make it a little harder for the bottom-four teams to win it.
In this new format the last-place Toronto Maple Leafs held on to the first overall pick with their 20 per cent chances, but there was some interesting movement behind them. The Winnipeg Jets, with just a 7.8 per cent chance, wound up with the second overall pick to take Patrik Laine, while fourth-last Columbus wound up moving into the three position where they took Pierre-Luc Dubois.
b) the league returns with a 24-team playoff that includes a number of teams that would have otherwise been in the lottery?have decided to have just a seven-team lottery for those top three picks, but chose to involve 15 teams as always. The difference this year is that the lottery could possibly be done in two phases, the first on June 26 and the potential second after the best-of-five play-in round this summer.
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