I know the Waiver Draft is the next item on the agenda, but the Entry Draft Lottery is not far after that.
The Lottery will take place on April 30th, 2016. I was thinking of doing it via Google Hangouts in a live atmosphere. I will have 6 ping pong balls with numbers on them and will pick them out of a hat or bowl or something.
I wanted to do it at 9:00AM PST/12:00PM EST. Does this work for everybody?
Here's the official order of the draft odds:
1. Ottawa Senators - 28.5% (Owned by Minnesota North Stars) 2. Hartford Whalers - 21.5% 3. Tampa Bay Lightning - 16.5% 4. New Jersey Devils - 11% (Owned by Montreal Canadiens) 5. Chicago Blackhawks - 7.5% 6. Montreal Canadiens - 4.4% 7. Vancouver Canucks - 3.1% 8. Colorado Rockies - 2.5% (Owned by New York Rangers) 9. Washington Capitals - 1.9% 10. Los Angeles Kings - 1.5% 11. Winnipeg Jets - 1% (Owned by New Jersey Devils) 12. Anaheim Ducks - 0.6%
Here is the rest of the order going forward for all rounds (I will make sure each thread in the future represents who owns what pick in each round):
13. Boston Bruins 14. New York Islanders 15. Arizona Coyotes 16. Calgary Flames 17. Philadelphia Flyers 18. Toronto Maple Leads 19. Minnesota North Stars 20. New York Rangers
Last Edit: Apr 12, 2016 16:50:26 GMT -8 by NYR (Rob)
Post by MIN (Juuso) on Apr 13, 2016 10:26:18 GMT -8
As I mentioned in the chat, Rob has asked me to randomize the lottery numbers and not show them to him before the draft to add transparency and to prevent any potential 'rigging' of the draft. I've created a spreadsheet with the unique 6 digit numbers for the lottery draft, and I've uploaded a copy of the spreadsheet in this post. I would encourage you to download this file, but you should not be able to access it as the spreadsheet is password protected (please let me know if this is not the case!). I'll share the password with everyone when the draft lottery commences.
Edit: I'm sure there must be ways to crack the password encryption on this file, but I'm hoping this is something we won't need to worry about!
I just wanted to remind everybody that the Entry Draft Lottery is Saturday, April 30th at 9:00 AM (PST).
It should only take 5 min. I will email out a google hangout link at 8:55am (PST). This will give everybody 5 min to log on. I will make the drawings at 9am (PST).
I will post the randomised teams into the 'Team' column after the first ball has been drawn. I will also share the password for the Excel spreadsheet I uploaded on April 13th for anyone wanting to make sure that the numbers have not been tampered with. I thought I'd do it this way so that everyone has access to the spreadsheet, even if they don't have access to Excel!