The ping-pong balls did not fall the Bruins’ way Monday night.
Despite entering the NHL Draft Lottery with just a 14.2 percent of dropping down the No. 7 pick, the Bruins were indeed leapfrogged by two other teams in the draft order, pushing them down the furthest they could fall in the 2025 NHL Draft.
Bruins GM Don Sweeney stressed that Boston will still be in a position to add a top blue-chip talent to the Original Six franchise’s ailing prospect pipeline.
“We’re still picking in the upper echelon of the draft, which we haven’t done for a significant time period, so we feel very comfortable in terms of where the top seven picks are,” Sweeney said Monday.