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NHL playoff watch standings update: What's at stake in the 2022 draft lottery

Some nights there are a bounty of NHL games on the schedule, a large proportion of which have massive impacts on the playoff races.

Then there are nights like tonight, with three of four teams headed to the draft lottery, and one team eight points clear of the club below them. (And we can't blame the schedule making crew either, as all four of these teams were in the playoffs last season.)

In any event, now is as good a time as any to take a gander at some of the top prospects available for the teams that are near the bottom of the standings, and atop the draft lottery board.