It’s that time of the year folks! The 2023 NHL Draft Lottery will decide how far away the Ducks are going to be from getting out of the rebuild.
Event Details:
5pm PST/8pm EST on NHL Network, ESPN, TVA Sports, and Sportsnet
Available Talents:
Connor Bedard:
[https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/30/scouting-report-connor-bedard/](https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/30/scouting-report-connor-bedard/)
Adam Fantilli:
[https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/26/scouting-report-adam-fantilli/](https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/26/scouting-report-adam-fantilli/)
Leo Carlsson:
[https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/21/scouting-profile-leo-carlsson-1/](https://smahtscouting.com/2022/12/21/scouting-profile-leo-carlsson-1/)
Matvei Michkov:
[https://smahtscouting.com/2023/01/19/scouting-report-matvei-michkov/](https://smahtscouting.com/2023/01/19/scouting-report-matvei-michkov/)
Regardless of who the Ducks take, they will be getting a 1st overall caliber-type of player.
As the Ducks are the team that finished last, here are the odds for getting the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd overall picks in this year’s draft.
1st Overall: 18.5%/25.5% (The Ducks are guaranteed the 1st overall pick if a 12th-16th team ‘wins’ the lottery and moves up 10 spots in the draft)
2nd Overall: 18.8%
3rd Overall: 55.7%
Here is a more detailed explaination:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLkUCafSnU&pp=ygUbbmhsIGRyYWZ0IGxvdHRlcnkgZXhwbGFpbmVk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLkUCafSnU&pp=ygUbbmhsIGRyYWZ0IGxvdHRlcnkgZXhwbGFpbmVk)
by Rooch20
49 Comments
it feels like Christmas day
Nice thread
I’ve legitimately been counting down to this day lmao. This is our playoffs
Teams I’d be ok with winning if it aint us:
CBJ
Arizona
Philly
If these teams win, its a league conspiracy:
Chicago
MTL
DET
This is what we’ve been working towards all season. Cmon #1!
Really hope we all least stay top 2 because the Michkov option really scares me
OC native tuning in from Utah. Go Ducks! We need some luck.
Judgement Day
Habs fan here. First of all consider yourself very lucky to draft high ona good year. The last two times we had a top 3 pick it was during a bad draft year with a lack of elite talent and it sucks.
Second of all, if you don’t get Bedard, I really hope you will get him. Anaheim has been my second favorite team since Kariya and I look forward to see him with McTavish .
Good luck !
So today isn’t the actual draft, correct? It’s the day we find out the order?
Damn I wasn’t nervous but now that the day is here I’m a little nervous lol. Potentially huge day for the franchise here.
Last two drafts, last place won 1OA.
Good things come in threes.
Obligatory FUCK CHICAGO.
I was telling a friend of mine how weird it is to be ultra concerned about the lottery at present, whereas in the past I pretty much didnt care because we never had a shot at picking high anyways.
Kariya + Selanne = 98
I’d be ok with the following teams getting 1OA:
Anaheim
The Ducks
Commercial Break FFFFFFFFFF
Bro I can’t handle this. I’m just preparing for a Chicago 1
Guaranteed at LEAST Fantilli.
Let’s gooooo
Lol what? Did I just get lagged out? They didn’t even show #3?
Oh my God it’s between us and the Blackhawks
You fuckers got 2015… if they take this too I swear to Christ
anyone else about to have a heart attack?
Man. They’re really gonna give it to Chicago.
The announcer just said Columbus dropped to 3rd but they never showed it. What is going on?
Wait did Weekesy just say that CBJ dropped to 3rd??
They just said CBJ dropped to 3 on ESPN, that means we are top 2
🤞🏼
Tin foil hat on.
What a MASSIVE fuck up by ESPN if that’s actually true and Weekes didn’t just misspeak
If it ends up being Chicago, the NHL conspiracy theorists are going to lose their fucking minds
I think ESPN accidentally went to break earlier and they knew CBJ is 3rd?
NOOOOOOOOOOO
We got screwed
I’m never going watching hockey again
It’s been real guys. But F the rigged nhl
So FUCKING rigged.
I called this in September. League won’t let the Hawks be shit for more then 2 years
And there it is, folks. NHL will never allow another Cup in Anaheim.
Rigged. NHL really is the worst of the major sports associations.
Lmfao like theyd actually let Bedard go to a small market
F-king Chicago Blackhawks. I hate that organization so much.
Wtf ducks sign upside down! Fuckers
ITS FUCKING RIGGED
Classic. It’s rigged to the core, jesus christ
Totally rigged. Sweethearts of the league.
And our card was upside-down lol thanks
They revealed columbus early and then our card was fucking upside down. Rigged.
As an Anaheim sports fan, I would just like to win something.
So they called Columbus 3rd overall before the commercial break and showed chicago winning on the board before they called first overall. GG nhl
Rigged. Fuck Chicago.
Anaheim isn’t my main team but I really wanted to see Bedard with McTavish and zegras
Fuck you Chicago. All the people whose “uncle’s friend’s cousin” is from Chicago are gonna be coming out in droves again