Draft lottery begins in an hour.

Who will win?

Taylor Hall, obviously.

lmao

Actually, what will happen is that if Arizona doesn’t win the lottery, Taylor Hall signs with whoever wins it.

(Which I know makes no sense positionally, but whatever.)

Since NJD will pick 7th, I'd love to see MTL land the top pick. I think it'd be great for hockey to see Alexis play for his hometown/home province team. Otherwise, keep him away from the Metro division, especially the Rangers.

First overall pick odds (lmao) pic.twitter.com/ucUsKW8z4Z

— dom luszczyszyn (@domluszczyszyn) June 27, 2020

now, my rankings for maximum "Hockey Internet Melts Down" potential:
6) everybody else not mentioned henceforth
5) the Original Six teams composed of the Leafs and the Canadiens (everybody would scream "rigged" for the Leafs, and mostly everybody would scream "rigged" for the Canadiens, but it'd be a nice story, and i'm not opposed to that)
4) the Original Six teams composed of the Rangers and Blackhawks (everybody would scream "rigged," and the "3 Cups in 6 years" Blackhawks haven't faded away to enough dust for people to not get angry)
3) the Penguins (everyone would definitely have an aneurysm if Crosby and Malkin got a bloody generational talent on an ELC to play on their wing)
2) 'Lottery Ball Specialist' Taylor Hall and his band of Merry Men (the Coyotes)
1) the Oilers (you know the Internet would have a collective meltdown if this happened)

No matter what happens, it's an unique situation when some fans actively wants their team to lose the qualification round.

And very many people are going to end salty to the solution.

yeah, it was a terribly short-sighted move, as Arpon Basu and Marc-Antoine Godin noted in The Athletic:

I will seppuku on Aho's 42 million dollars if Pittsburgh or Edmonton win

Really don't think either is losing against MTL and CHI

gonna say chicago

Inb4 they drop EDM outta playoffs.

Revisiting this thread omegalul

i think the rangers will win the lottery

How'd ya know

hahaha lol