[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

Here are the lottery odds

https://www.tankathon.com/nhl/pick_odds

Last place you get a 25% chance of 1st

Islanders somehow won with 3.5% chance.

Yeah it's also about the odds of a top 3 or top 4 pick IMO than just the odds of 4th overall. The Isles winning the lottery actually made some of the other teams picks worse.

So you can sermonize about how the worst team in the league last year only got the 2nd overall pick. That doesn't seem so bad to me.

Meanwhile a team with 80 points drafted 11th overall. That's the situation to avoid.