NHL Draft Lottery Seems To Officially Begin On June 26

Published: 16/06/2020

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NHL Draft Lottery of 2020 is set to begin at the end of June before the season proceeds its play. In June, NHL will begin with more fun and excitement, as it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The league has already disclosed all the information regarding the sports that will proceed with a training camp. The training camp has started on June 10 before the major beginning of the season at the end of June.

Before the NHL begins, the NHL Draft Lottery will be introduced as one of the leagues’ more intricate maneuvers. Although NHL Draft won’t take place at the end of 2020, rather it is planned right after the Stanley Cup is rewarded for this season. Moreover, the draft lottery will be provided before the league continues with a small twist from how things generally proceed in hockey.

Usually, this draft lottery is held after the regular season finishes and prior the playoff with all the 15 teams, who are eligible to try for the top three wins in the lottery. However, due to the pandemic, the lottery had been put on a halt, along with the league, and will continue once the season starts again.

Final Announcement For NHL Lottery 2020

According to the TSN,’s Bob McKenzie, in 2020, the NHL lottery will be announced officially on June 26 at 8 pm. Although, no television broadcast has been confirmed yet. But, it’s fair enough to assume that the league’s event will go air as it used to take place in the past.

Moreover, this year’s NHL lottery will be slightly different than it used to be in the past years. There will be two draft NHL lotteries for the starters and it will also significantly depend on how things take place this season.

On the other hand, lottery odds will be the same as before. Detroit Red Wings scores the top odds at 18.5% like before and other major seven teams that could not make up to the 24 team title match. Besides, eight mystery teams are still to be formed.

Draft Order For 24-Team Format

As for now, nobody is aware of which 8 teams have not made up for the final qualifying round for the NHL lottery, which will be held on June 26. Here is the draft order of teams that couldn’t make up to 24 team format. Moreover, the mystery teams will be seen in the qualifying round with their lottery odds.

1. Detroit Red Wings with 18.5% lottery odds
2. Ottawa Senators with 13.5% lottery odds
3. Los Angeles Kings with 9.5% lottery odds
4. Anaheim Ducks with 8.5% lottery odds
5. New Jersey Devils with 7.5% lottery odds
6. Buffalo Sabres with 6.5% lottery odds
7. The others are from team A to team H

If any three picks are won by a team that took part and then lost in the final qualifying round. Then that team will get a second chance for the NHL lottery before the quarter-finals round. The teams that are only involved in the NHL lottery could not advance past the final round with similar odds of winning the lottery picks at 12.5%.

Although it’s an intricate system, the NHL lottery at the end of the month will give final results and will make everything clear.

In NHL, there is also a condition, where a team such as Pittsburgh Penguins may loose in all the three play-in rounds but may win the first pick of this year’s NHL lottery. Although, the probability of such a situation to occur is very less when the NHL begins any anything could happen.