2009-nhl-draft-lottery Stories - Battle of California
NHL Draft Lottery Open Thread
NHL Draft Lottery 8:00 PM ET TV: Versus/TSN Bruins' Odds of First Round Pick: 18.8% Odds of Top 2 Pick: 60.8% Chat it up with fellow B's fans, while you wait for your balls to drop.
Reactions: No man's a whole island, but Tavares may as well be
And on the 14th day of April, the hockey gods smiled on the Islanders and bestowed upon them a reward for years of pain and corruption, years of persecution at the hands of hockey sinners whose afterlife now includes jail and/or NESN appearances. And it was good. Spiritual visions emerged of...
Three Is A Magic Number
All that for...nada. After all the talk about percentages and probability charts, the Islanders "won" the draft lottery, meaning there are no changes to the draft order of the bottom 14 teams. Colorado holds the 3rd pick, the highest they've drafted since that Lindros fella. Despite all the...
NY Islanders Win The NHL Draft Lottery, Leafs Will Select 7th Overall
So there is no change. A season's worth of tanking has paid off for the New York Islanders as they will select the Maple Leafs. Thankfully, no one jumped over the Leafs either. Post your reaction in the comments!
Draft Lottery Victory Party: Open thread of John Hedvares
[Edit: We won! Yes, the Islanders won something big in 2008-09! Thanks everybody for the "congrats" and such. Keep 'em coming. We'll have more in the morning.] It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The future was bright, the future was absolute, nauseating uncertainty. We need a...
NHL Draft Lottery Open Thread
Alright sports fans. First, the bad news for me (good for Leaf fans): Liverpool did not use up all of my sporting luck today as they crashed out of the Champions League to the Chelsea Diving Team. That means that all of the luck has been saved up for tonight's draft lottery. Here's video of a...
NHL Draft Lottery set for tonight; some notes on Tom Hicks
The NHL draft lottery will be held tonight and will be broadcast live on Versus at 7:00p CDT. Currently the Stars have the 8th pick in the draft and a 3.7% chance of winning the lottery. For those of you who aren't familiar with the NHL lottery, here are the main points: If a team wins the...
NHL Draft Lottery, Preview And Open Thread
The Scotiabank/NHL Draft Lottery, to determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the first round of the 2009 Entry Draft, will take place on Tuesday, April 14th. The result of the drawing, will be announced at 8:00 p.m., ET on TSN (Canada) and Versus (U.S.) as part of a...
LHinks: Lottery Day & lots at play
My brother, a rational man -- and also my attorney (but I contradict myself) -- will nonetheless occasionally buy a lottery ticket. When he confesses this bit of curious behavior to me, I like to remind him that his chances of winning are roughly equal to my chances of being mauled by a cheetah...
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