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Islanders stay at 15, Metro Division rivals take top spots at NHL Draft Lottery

In the grand scheme of things, no one really cares how the 2017 Draft Lottery affected the Islanders. They came in with the 15th overall pick and thanks to pretty low odds, left with the 15th overall pick. That’s what happens when you miss the playoff cutoff by a point.

And there are a couple of teams who should be super, duper, royally pissed off at what happened tonight in Toronto. We’ll get to them in a minute.

But as fans of a team hoping to have a better season next year, tonight’s results were pretty disappointing.